Tea, Tomes, and Dragons — Signed Paperback

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Signed Paperback Edition

This copy will be personally signed by Maggie O’Connor before shipping.

The council wants her bookshop. The bookshop wants its dragon back.

Every retirement plan has flaws. Beatrice’s involves spontaneous combustion. After a small incident involving her dragonfire and a very flammable library, sixty-three-year-old Beatrice Ashcroft retreats to Emberville to run her family’s bookshop. She wants peace, pastries, and absolutely no incidents that require a fire extinguisher.

Unfortunately for her, the Ashcroft Bookshop has other plans.

Warmth hums through the floorboards. Runes shimmer across the walls. A ghostly founder sends unsolicited mail. And the town council cheerfully informs her that unless business drastically improves, the shop will be reassigned to a “more suitable custodian” by week’s end.

Her only hope? Partnering with the one person she hoped to avoid for the rest of her natural life: Celeste Moonshadow, an impeccably dressed high-school rival turned werewolf councilwoman.

Between a talking pig who insists on acting like the world’s grumpiest housecat, a teenage assistant with unpredictable moonlit magic, and a powerful ex-boyfriend who still thinks the quickest way to a dragon’s heart is through her two stomachs, Beatrice begins to suspect a truth she’s avoided for decades: maybe not all problems can be solved with dragonfire.