The Tea Witch of Emberwick. A Cosy Fantasy of Tea, Magic, and Finding Where You Belong - J.M. Mac

Elara Winterbrook has always brewed perfect cups of tea. She just never knew why.

When a letter arrives from a great-aunt she never knew existed, Elara follows handwritten directions to a hidden town three hours north a town that doesn't appear on any map, that folds itself away from the ordinary world, and that has apparently been waiting for her.

The Dragon's Tea Shop is hers by inheritance, along with a two-hundred-year-old tea dragon named Jasper, a hidden library in the basement, and the slowly dawning realisation that every cup of tea she has ever made has been a small act of magic she never learned to name.

But Emberwick's magical community is in trouble. The ley lines that sustain the town have been weakening for years. Cordelia Winterbrook Elara's great-aunt, did not die of natural causes. And the people responsible are sitting on the very Council that will decide whether Elara is fit to keep what she has inherited.

She has five days before the assessment that could take everything away.

The Tea Witch of Emberwick is a warm, witty, and quietly profound fantasy novel about belonging, inheritance, and the particular magic of knowing what people need before they know it themselves.