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The Apothecary & The Tea Merchant
Paperback
Publisher Price: $23.99
Publisher: Obsidian Quill
Published: Oct 4 2026
Pages: 390
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the cliffside town of Crescent Cascades, where the waterfalls roar steady under everything and the lantern-lit shops of Market Row stay open into the fog, two careful people have spent three years pretending not to look at each other across a single cobblestoned street.
Hazel Blancborn has run her late mother's apothecary for ten years and has not yet quite let herself believe it is hers. She is the most powerful witch in town by widespread agreement, beloved by an aggressively judgmental cat, and gently devoted to her father at the elder haven up the hill - who has begun, lately, to ask whether anyone waits for her at night. When the Fairy Licensing Council files a complaint against her tinctures, Hazel decides - to her own considerable horror - to sign up for enchanted matchmaking. It is, she tells herself firmly, market research.
Zero Vale owns Black Harbor Tea Company across the way. He has watched Hazel for three years with the careful restraint of a man certain she deserves better. He has rules about not crossing the street. He has, very recently, done something reckless about all three.
When the enchantment pairs them - sealed, blind, no chance to talk their way out of it - Hazel has to decide whether the man across the way is the one defending her at the Council or the one trying to ruin her. Zero has to decide whether three years of silence are worth one evening of finally saying it.
The shop is in danger. The town is watching. And the matchmaking magic, it turns out, knew exactly what it was doing.
Cozy fantasy small-town romance. Open door, slow burn, dual POV. Book one of the Tea and Tonic Chronicles.
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