The Hearth & Hollow Pottery - Hidden Havens Series Book 8: A Cozy Urban Fantasy Romance

The Underground has been here for a hundred and forty years. Kael intends to keep it that way.Kael Marsh is a third-generation steward of the Hearth & Hollow Pottery, a late-night ceramic shop tucked into the Cobblestone Underground - a hidden nocturnal market built into the abandoned transit tunnels beneath Boston. He throws clay to the rhythm of his own heartbeat, tends a formation-layer cistern that has been running clean for over a century, and has been, quietly and without complaint, the bedrock that everything else rests on.He is not expecting a city geologist with a ground-penetrating radar rig and three weeks of anomalous data that no one at her division will look at.Elara Voss has been finding cracks in the city's subterranean infrastructure for months. She's been told, repeatedly, that the cracks are errors in her readings. She keeps looking anyway. When her sensors lead her underground - into a market that doesn't appear on any city map, running off an aquifer that flows against the hydraulic gradient, fed by a crystalline formation that generates a magnetic field her instruments can't fully account for - she arrives at two conclusions simultaneously: her data has been right all along, and the world is considerably stranger than her training prepared her for.The contamination is real. The fractures are real. And when the city's emergency protocol threatens to bury the Underground under thirty metres of concrete, Kael and Elara have seventy-two hours to find the source, seal the damage, and hold the line - together.A Mutual Pining / Forced Proximity romance. Enemies to allies to something neither of them has a word for yet. Low-heat, high-tension, deeply cozy.Part of The Hidden Havens Series - each book is a standalone romance set in the secret magical districts of modern Boston. Perfect for bingeing.

Pagina's: 142, Paperback, Independently published