What The Wood Remembers: Where Evening Stays Book Three

The shop has a Keeper. She knows its rhythms by heart, tends its household through the short winter days, holds the threshold for anyone who arrives. She does this without being asked.She just doesn't know how to let it go the other way.When the wood of the far shelves begins to wake - secreting a golden resin that will reshape the shop's geometry unless heard - Corra must uncover a history older than the current building and perform a ritual that requires something she has never managed to give: not her effort, not her tending, but herself. Received, rather than offering.The shop has been tending her since she arrived. It has been very patient.What the Wood Remembers is a cozy fantasy about found family, a sentient bookshop, and a woman who has spent a winter learning what it means to be kept - not just to keep.For fans of TJ Klune, Alix E. Harrow, and Travis Baldree.

Pages: 309, Paperback, Independently published