STEEP & STAY: Tea Shop at the Edge of Time (Mended Magic,Cozy Fantasy)

By Aurelia Night

Every tea she brews opens a window to a different time. She just can't keep leaving them open.
Io Ashmore's tea shop sits at the edge of Calendon, where the air always smells faintly of something that hasn't happened yet. Each blend she brews opens a window - to the past, a parallel present, a possible future. Customers come from across the county to sit with their cup and watch: the road not taken, the person they used to be, the morning everything changed.It's a kind of magic, and Io has always told herself she offers it kindly.What she hasn't told herself, because she hasn't quite been ready to look, is that the windows are getting larger. That they've been staying open longer than they should. That somewhere between being generous and being unable to say no, she's let the boundary between now and everywhere-else wear thin enough that the timelines are starting to bleed through on their own.The clockmaker who arrives in Calendon with a case full of measuring instruments and a very precise concern about temporal degradation is not, technically, welcome news. Cael Merrow has the evidence, the timeline, and the deeply inconvenient ability to make Io look at what she's been allowing. She has the shop, the tea, and the dawning understanding that kindness offered without limits is not the same thing as kindness.A warm, bittersweet cozy fantasy about time, the cost of showing people what they most want to see, and the small courage of choosing the present - the seventh book in the Mended Magic series.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H6WHFTWJ
• ISBN13: 9798184701776
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 37 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"