What the Roots Remember: A Cozy Fantasy Novel

Some pranks are just mischief. Some are grief, wearing a mask.Two years after the hollow's arrangement was set right, the Elderwood has settled into something close to peace - Fenwick Mosspocket keeps his shop, his hearth, and his quiet watch over the grove. But this book isn't his to carry.That falls to Bram Cobbletoe, a young craftsman whose widowed aunt Wren has just made her first real choice on land that was always someone else's first: expanding her garden past ground the brownies have always, wordlessly, left alone.The forest answers back - not with threats, but with pranks. Rearranged stones. A fence bent at a precise, almost comic angle. A stillness where birdsong used to be. Bram recognizes the language immediately; it's the very discipline Fenwick spent years teaching him. He's just never used it on something that isn't brownie, isn't sprite - and isn't there to check his work.A cozy fantasy about mentorship, found family, and the moment a student discovers a craft was always, quietly, his own.Perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher, Travis Baldree, and Sarah Beth Durst.