TENDED

The Hearth is healed. The Hollow is not.

In the Ashen Reach - the hardest, coldest, most thoroughly forgotten territory in Vaelmoor - Warden-Kindler Wren Ashcombe finds a district carrying a wound considerably older than any Ministry's neglect: a Hearth that doesn't starve for warmth, but hoards grief, patient and aware, for reasons two centuries buried.

A widower can no longer cry for his wife. A woman a generation gone never learned to trust love enough to keep it. And somewhere in this guarded district, a vanished Lightkeeper's thirty-year silence holds the only clue to what the Hollow is doing with everything it has taken - and whether any of it can still be given back.

Joined by Captain Callum Vane, a stubborn young apprentice with more courage than caution, and a woman whose grief once curdled into a cause, Wren must uncover a two-hundred-year-old secret before a darker reckoning finishes what its architect never lived to complete.

But some doors, once opened, ask for more than anyone is prepared to pay.

Perfect for readers who enjoy cozy fantasy with genuinely dangerous stakes, found family and hard-earned trust, slow-burn romance, and character-driven fantasy where competence matters more than destiny.

Some griefs wait two hundred years to be properly felt. This one finally is.