Spirit House - The Folded Peak: A Cozy Fantasy Novel of Northern Thailand: 2

She has a home now. She's about to find out what that costs.Claire Jo Morgan came to Northern Thailand to disappear and ended up staying. She has a crumbling teak house, a garden that answers back, a café where the tea is poured before she asks, and a spirit house in the corner whose guardians have, grudgingly, decided to keep her.But a place doesn't finish claiming you all at once. As the seasons turn over the Chiang Mai valley, new arrivals bring their own histories to Claire's threshold: a man carrying a country that no longer exists in the shape he remembers, and a woman who has built a wall of teacups and English roses against a world she never chose. Both are armored. Both are, in their own way, exactly what Claire was a year ago.Belonging, it turns out, is not a door you walk through once. It's a thing you learn to offer other people, and the offering asks more of you than the arriving ever did.The Folded Peak is the second novel in the Spirit House series: warm, wry, and quietly magical fiction about food and found family, about the people who feed you and the ones who let you feed them, and about the slow work of becoming someone a place decides to keep.Return to the valley. The tea's already poured.New to the series? Begin with Spirit House, the first novel.