Names & Nettles: Whiskers & Wildwood, Book Three
Two years in Briarhold. The rescue runs itself now. Nell Alder knows her animals by sound in the dark, knows which floorboard creaks on the third step, knows the shape of her life well enough to have stopped examining it.
Then three strangers arrive at Marta's inn asking after a woman six years lost. One of them calls a name across the market square, and Nell does not turn. But her hand goes to her left side without her choosing. And the tool in her coat pocket - a dead woman's tool, six years older than her memory - feels suddenly like a key.
They are not wrong. They are also not right. The woman Gareth, Kess, and Fenn loved on a thousand miles of road is not the woman who runs the rescue at the edge of the Wildwood - but she was, and the distance between those two things is the last thing Nell has to walk.
Far to the north, in a hill-country valley nobody in Briarhold has ever seen, a man has been sitting at a hearth for six years waiting for something nobody promised would come. Someone has hands that might help him. She does not know whose hands they are until she has already started to move.
Nell Alder found her home. Now she has to decide what it costs to keep it.
Names & Nettles is the third and concluding book in the Whiskers & Wildwood trilogy - a cozy fantasy about found family, the quiet magic of earned belonging, and the particular courage of staying.
For readers of Legends & Lattes, The House in the Cerulean Sea, A Psalm for the Wild-Built, and Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries.
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