Tide's Edge and Inn

She came to sell the Inn. The Inn had other plans.

Beatrix Arabella Wellington-Fairfax has fifteen years of billable hours and a promotion on the horizon. What she doesn't have is any idea who Aunt Clementine was, until a will names her heir to an inn on an island she's never heard of, on one condition: live there a year, or lose it. Beatrix treats it like any other case, a problem to solve and be done with. The Inn doesn't see it that way.

She arrives in a blazer and broken heels, exit plan already drafted, and finds three aunties who come with the place, a guest book that books its own guests, and a steady stream of strangers who arrive broken and leave changed. Whether Beatrix likes it or not.

What she really didn't see coming was Gideon. Grandfatherly tweed vests. Shakespeare quoted as insults. A treehouse next door he apparently lives in. A man who throws his own sandal into the ocean because she makes him that unhinged, and keeps showing up exactly when she doesn't want him to, and exactly when she needs him most.

Beatrix has a plan. The Inn has a different one. Somebody's year is about to get very complicated.

Grumpy/Sunshine · Slow Burn · Found Family · Sentient Magic · Forced Proximity

A whimsical cozy fantasy romance about the life she didn't know she was waiting for, and the house that knew before she did.

Teavanui is a fictional island where the jungle presses right up to the porch, teacups hang from tree branches, and an inn (that may just have more magic in it than meets the eye) at the end of a winding trail has opinions about your wellness.

Come for the found family. Stay for the banana bread.

Content note: Closed-door romance. This is a kissing book, not a bedroom one.

Book 1 in the Inns Along the Way Series

A note from Heather: I wrote this book for the woman I was when I was in burnout. And like any writer, I turned pieces of reality into fiction and made the place I wish I had, a soft whimsical place where healing is found in unexpected places. This is a book that taught me something deep and changed my heart and pieces of my life, and I think it might do the same if you are willing to come sit awhile on Teavanui.