The roots of all stories are true…at least somewhere.
When an ordinary folklore student with a lifelong belief in magic dives headfirst into an apprenticeship with the creator of nightmarish, soul-stealing train, she must decide if magic is worth siding with monsters to attain, or if she’d be better off giving it up entirely.
For fans of Spirited Away, The Starless Sea, The Ten Thousand Doors of January, and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.
When Nora’s magical bakery is threatened by a blackmail-minded businessman with necromantic ambitions, she must team up with her ghostly grandmother, the florist next door, and the businessman’s maybe-murdered son to keep the bakery—and the city—from becoming the epicenter of a magical accident…just like the one that killed Nora’s mother.
For fans of whimsical, cozy fantasy in a world very like our own, as well as works like Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries and The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy.