Her tea shop's newest hire is a rogue magical creature. Her biggest problem is falling for the inspector sent to shut her down.Tansy Quill has spent three years building a quiet life in the village of Mosswick: spellwork by day, gossip by the fire at night, and a suspiciously opinionated cat named Bramble curled up by the hearth. It's cozy. It's safe. And it's built on exactly one secret: Bramble isn't a cat at all.He's a chaos familiar, the kind of magical creature the Arcane Registry spends entire careers hunting down. If anyone finds out what's really warming her shop's windowsill, Tansy loses everything: her business, her friends, maybe her freedom.Then the Registry sends an inspector to Mosswick, and of course he's not the bumbling bureaucrat she was hoping for. He's sharp, patient, entirely too observant, and doing an alarming amount of noticing about the tea shop with the strange lantern light and the cat who never quite behaves like a cat.Rowan Hawthorne didn't come to Mosswick looking for anything except a routine case and a fast way home. He didn't expect a village that argues about scones like it's a sport, a woman who organizes her feelings like paperwork, or a small, ridiculous creature that keeps finding reasons to be underfoot whenever he's alone with Tansy.As the inspection drags on, and Bramble's chaos gets harder to hide, Tansy and Rowan find themselves circling something neither of them planned for: trust, then friendship, then the kind of slow-burn feeling that's much harder to file away than a magical violation.Perfect for readers who love cozy fantasy romance with a found-family village, a sweet slow-burn romance, a meddling magical pet, and a heroine who'd rather organize her feelings than feel them. If you loved Legends & Lattes, A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping, or Spellshop, you'll feel right at home in Mosswick.THE FAMILIAR PROBLEM is Book One in the Reformed Spellcasters series: a warm, witty, low-heat fantasy romance about found family, unruly magic, and falling in love one cup of tea at a time. Read more
