A Hearth of One's Own
(2026)(The second book in the Lantern & Latch Chronicles series)
A novel by E K Cozy
The village wants a festival. The inn wants to help. The innkeeper wants to hide under the counter.
A sapphic cozy fantasy romance about found family, magical cooking, and feeding six hundred people without losing your mind.
When the Wetherbrook Village Council announces the revival of its legendary Midsummer Festival after more than a decade, they assume the Lantern & Latch will handle the catering. All three days of it. For six hundred people.
Roan MacKenna, former thief turned reluctant innkeeper, would like a word with whoever made that assumption. Possibly several words, none of them polite.
Fortunately, she's not doing this alone. Maris, the noblewoman who traded her title for an apron and Roan's heart, is already planning the menu. Thom, the village baker and the steadiest man alive, is hauling supplies before anyone thinks to ask. And Montgomery, the aristocrat who spent a century cursed as a cat and still hasn't quite broken the habit of napping in sunbeams, has appointed himself head of logistics. No one asked him to. No one could stop him if they tried.
But feeding a village is one thing.
Keeping your found family together is another.
A new herbalist in town has zero patience for Montgomery's charm. A letter from Maris's mother threatens everything they've built. And the inn itself seems to have plans of its own, its kitchen magic stirring in ways no one can quite predict.
Over the course of one chaotic, heartwarming summer, five very different people will discover what it really means to belong to each other.
If you love feel-good fantasy with slow-burn romance, quirky ensemble casts, and comfort reads that pair perfectly with tea and a rainy afternoon, pull up a chair. There's room at the table.
Perfect for fans of Legends & Lattes, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, and Can't Spell Treason Without Tea.
Book 2 in The Lantern & Latch Chronicles. Each book follows the same beloved cast through a new season at the inn. Happily ever after guaranteed. No cliffhangers.
Genre: Fantasy
A sapphic cozy fantasy romance about found family, magical cooking, and feeding six hundred people without losing your mind.
When the Wetherbrook Village Council announces the revival of its legendary Midsummer Festival after more than a decade, they assume the Lantern & Latch will handle the catering. All three days of it. For six hundred people.
Roan MacKenna, former thief turned reluctant innkeeper, would like a word with whoever made that assumption. Possibly several words, none of them polite.
Fortunately, she's not doing this alone. Maris, the noblewoman who traded her title for an apron and Roan's heart, is already planning the menu. Thom, the village baker and the steadiest man alive, is hauling supplies before anyone thinks to ask. And Montgomery, the aristocrat who spent a century cursed as a cat and still hasn't quite broken the habit of napping in sunbeams, has appointed himself head of logistics. No one asked him to. No one could stop him if they tried.
But feeding a village is one thing.
Keeping your found family together is another.
A new herbalist in town has zero patience for Montgomery's charm. A letter from Maris's mother threatens everything they've built. And the inn itself seems to have plans of its own, its kitchen magic stirring in ways no one can quite predict.
Over the course of one chaotic, heartwarming summer, five very different people will discover what it really means to belong to each other.
If you love feel-good fantasy with slow-burn romance, quirky ensemble casts, and comfort reads that pair perfectly with tea and a rainy afternoon, pull up a chair. There's room at the table.
Perfect for fans of Legends & Lattes, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, and Can't Spell Treason Without Tea.
Book 2 in The Lantern & Latch Chronicles. Each book follows the same beloved cast through a new season at the inn. Happily ever after guaranteed. No cliffhangers.
Genre: Fantasy
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