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The Apothecary on Wattle Lane
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Series: Wattle Lane, Book 1
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 8 2026
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Verity never meant to stay.
She'd come to sell her great-aunt Marigold's apothecary - a strange little shop on a lane she'd never heard of, tucked somewhere between the city she knew and a world she didn't. Sign the papers, settle the estate, go home to the calm, careful life she'd built out of not asking for too much.
But Wattle Lane doesn't appear to just anyone. It appears to people who need it. And Verity, whether she'll admit it or not, needs it badly.
Behind the apothecary's counter she discovers a gift she'd spent her whole life trying to bury - a clarity that comes in waves she can't control, showing her exactly what people need to hear, whether she wants to say it or not. It cost her a relationship once. It's cost her the version of herself everyone found easier to love.
As she gets to know her lane neighbours - a teahouse keeper who remembers too little, a guarded young woman who trusts animals more than people, two sisters who know every secret the cobblestones keep - Verity starts to unravel the deeper mystery Marigold left behind: an unsent letter, a sister who vanished eleven years ago, and a lane that seems to be waiting for something only Verity can finish.
A gentle, atmospheric story about second chances, the gifts we're afraid of, and the quiet courage it takes to stop performing fine and start being real.
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