A Measure of Petrichor

By Hazel Thornecroft

She bottled grief once. She didn't mean to.

When master perfumer Sable Venn is stripped of her court title and exiled in disgrace, she flees to the last place anyone from the capital would look: Tidepool Cove, a small coastal village where the tide pools glow at moonrise and everyone knows your name by breakfast. She arrives with a crumbling shop, a borrowed workbench, and nothing else.

But something strange happens when she begins blending again. Her essences carry more than fragrance - they carry feelings. Old sadness. Buried joy. The specific ache of a rainy afternoon. She has no name for what she's doing. She only knows it's dangerous, and she can't stop.

Sable builds something she didn't expect: a life. Neighbours who bring her kelp cakes. A landlord with too many secrets. A community that might, eventually, become home. Then word arrives that Aldric - the man who destroyed her at court - is asking questions about where she went.

If he finds her, she loses everything she's only just begun to hold.

Can Sable learn to trust a village that feels too good to be real before her past comes in with the tide?

Perfect for fans of Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree, The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune, and A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GYQRJC3B
• ISBN13: 9798259074859
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"