the Candle Shop at Edge of Enchanted Forest: A Cozy Fantasy Novel Scent, Memory, and Magic: 3

In a forgotten candle shop at the edge of an enchanted forest, one woman discovers that scent holds the key to memory, and that facing her past is the only way to build a future. Senna Wren has spent twenty years running from a memory she cannot name. When she inherits her grandmother's abandoned candle shop in the village of Thornhaven, she plans to assess the property and leave, just as she has left every other town before this one. But the shop has other plans. A single candle has been burning in the window for eight years, waiting for its keeper. A fox with eyes like autumn fire appears on the doorstep and refuses to leave. And when Senna lights a candle left for her with the words "Light me when you arrive," she is transported to a memory she has fought her whole life to forget: her mother's kitchen, her mother's voice, her mother's love. The candle shop, she learns, was built on scent-memory magic, a craft that recreates the scents of life's most significant moments. Every candle holds a memory, an emotion, or a hidden truth. But the magic has a cost. Each candle takes something from its maker, and Senna's grandmother gave too much, vanishing into the forest eight years ago. Now Senna must decide: run from the shop and the memories it holds, or stay and master a magic that requires her to face the loss she has been avoiding for two decades. With the help of a warm-hearted forest guide, a skeptical town elder, and a community slowly becoming her found family, she begins the work that could heal her, or cost her everything. >Readers who love Legends & Lattes, The Spellshop, and the gentle magic of Studio Ghibli will feel at home in this warm, emotional story. This book includes: - A unique scent-memory magic system- Sweet slow-burn romance (one kiss, closed door)- Found family that builds across the story- Detailed candle-making craft scenes- An enchanted forest with a mind of its own- A magical fox companion who reads emotions by scent- A satisfying happily-ever-after (no cliffhangers)- A connected standalone: new story, same world The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: Book 1: The Bookshop at the Edge of the Enchanted Forest Book 2: The Apothecary at the Edge of the Enchanted Forest Book 3: The Candle Shop at the Edge of the Enchanted Forest