You don't need to slay monsters to level up. Sometimes the greatest victory is simply making it through the day.
Burned-out project manager Kate Barrett has hit her breaking point. Fleeing the wreckage of her corporate career, she retreats to the foggy coast of Spruce Harbor, Maine, after inheriting her late great-aunt's dilapidated cliffside home, Seaglass Cottage.
Kate expects a quiet place to hide. She doesn't expect the cottage to wake up.
When a faint, blue-green message shimmers in the air, [Caretaker System Initialized. Welcome home.], Kate realizes her inheritance comes with a magical interface. The house is gamifying its own restoration, handing out real-world stats and quests for building fires, cooking meals, mending the roof, and surviving the storms that roll in off the Atlantic.
Swapping spreadsheets for sandpaper, Kate slowly levels up her life. She learns to homestead the hard way, sealing drafty windows, coaxing an overgrown garden back to life, and baking bread on a hundred-year-old woodstove. Along the way she forms a wary alliance with Finn, the town's gruff, kind-hearted carpenter. But the deeper she digs into the cottage, the more she uncovers the real reason the house woke up. Her aunt left behind coded journals, hidden navigation charts, and an unfinished sea-glass window, one that needs seven specific pieces of ocean-worn glass to reveal a secret the cottage has kept buried in its foundation for nearly two hundred years.
With a massive Nor'easter building on the horizon and a corporate developer circling the bluff, Kate will have to protect the town, honor her aunt, and finally build a life that is truly her own, one quest at a time.
The Coastal Caretaker is a cozy, slice-of-life homesteading LitRPG for readers who like their magic quiet and their coffee strong. Featuring found family, base-building, hands-on restoration and homesteading, a slow-burn small-town romance, light stat progression, and the healing power of the sea, it is perfect for readers who love cozy fantasy, wholesome small-town fiction, and low-stakes progression adventures where the stakes stay small and the magic feels like home.
A complete standalone cozy fantasy. Light stats, no grind, no cliffhangers. Just a house, a dog, and a woman learning how to stay.
Genre: Thriller
Burned-out project manager Kate Barrett has hit her breaking point. Fleeing the wreckage of her corporate career, she retreats to the foggy coast of Spruce Harbor, Maine, after inheriting her late great-aunt's dilapidated cliffside home, Seaglass Cottage.
Kate expects a quiet place to hide. She doesn't expect the cottage to wake up.
When a faint, blue-green message shimmers in the air, [Caretaker System Initialized. Welcome home.], Kate realizes her inheritance comes with a magical interface. The house is gamifying its own restoration, handing out real-world stats and quests for building fires, cooking meals, mending the roof, and surviving the storms that roll in off the Atlantic.
Swapping spreadsheets for sandpaper, Kate slowly levels up her life. She learns to homestead the hard way, sealing drafty windows, coaxing an overgrown garden back to life, and baking bread on a hundred-year-old woodstove. Along the way she forms a wary alliance with Finn, the town's gruff, kind-hearted carpenter. But the deeper she digs into the cottage, the more she uncovers the real reason the house woke up. Her aunt left behind coded journals, hidden navigation charts, and an unfinished sea-glass window, one that needs seven specific pieces of ocean-worn glass to reveal a secret the cottage has kept buried in its foundation for nearly two hundred years.
With a massive Nor'easter building on the horizon and a corporate developer circling the bluff, Kate will have to protect the town, honor her aunt, and finally build a life that is truly her own, one quest at a time.
The Coastal Caretaker is a cozy, slice-of-life homesteading LitRPG for readers who like their magic quiet and their coffee strong. Featuring found family, base-building, hands-on restoration and homesteading, a slow-burn small-town romance, light stat progression, and the healing power of the sea, it is perfect for readers who love cozy fantasy, wholesome small-town fiction, and low-stakes progression adventures where the stakes stay small and the magic feels like home.
A complete standalone cozy fantasy. Light stats, no grind, no cliffhangers. Just a house, a dog, and a woman learning how to stay.
Genre: Thriller
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