The Longest Night

The wedding is in four days. The longest night of the year is coming. And the whole hidden world is holding its breath.

Tamsin Ashdown has spent a year learning to be loved — by a village, by a family she gathered from strays and wanderers and wild things, by a man who waited patiently while she learned to stop bracing against joy. Now, on the winter solstice, she is finally ready: ready to be married, ready to hold the world through its deepest dark, ready to receive, at last, the full warmth of a life she'd never dared to want.

But the longest night asks more of a keeper than any other. At the winter solstice, the keepers of every fold open the Waters at once — the whole great web of the mending joined at the darkest hour, holding every grieving Dreamer and every wild spirit through the bottom of the year, carrying the sundered world on their shoulders until midnight turns and the light begins, at last, to return. It is the keepers' greatest work. And this year, Tamsin holds the center — because Hollowmere lit the fire that began the mending, and from her tea house the whole web has grown.

So she will do both. She will be married in the candlelit tea house while the longest night falls around them, and she will pour the gathered love of her wedding — her village's blazing joy, her own full heart — down through the joined Waters and out into the cold dark of the whole hidden world, to hold it through the deepest loneliest hour until the year turns and the light comes home.

A cozy winter fantasy about a witch who learns to receive love without bracing, a magical village that blazes against the dark, and a solstice wedding powerful enough to hold the world. The sixth book in The Hollowmere Tea House cozy fantasy series — a perfect standalone Christmas and winter fantasy, and the heartwarming conclusion readers have been waiting for since Book One.

A cozy fantasy with found family, fae characters, witch magic, slow-burn romance, and a winter solstice wedding that will make you cry and smile in the same breath.

The longest night is coming. And Hollowmere is going to light it up.