Whiskers & Wildwood

She woke up in a garden with no memory, no name, and hands that know things her mind doesn't. Six weeks ago, Nell Alder was someone else. She has no idea who. All she has is an instinct for animals she can't explain, a town that doesn't ask where she's from, and an empty building at the edge of an ancient, sentient forest that seems ― for reasons of its own ― to be paying attention. She's going to turn the building into an animal rescue. She's going to earn her place in Briarhold, one season at a time. She's going to discover that a three-legged crow called Spite has opinions about everything, that an eight-year-old called Pell is never wrong about names, and that the hardest thing about starting over isn't doing it alone. It's letting someone help. Whiskers & Wildwood is the first book in a cozy fantasy trilogy about belonging, identity, and the slow magic of letting people in. For readers of Legends & Lattes, The House in the Cerulean Sea, and Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries.