The title office runs on paper, not promises — and Elowen Vire has spent three years making sure the Ruin-Rows never lose another inch of ground to men who show up with maps and no memory of who was standing on it first. When a land company files against a cooper who's worked the same yard for forty years, she has thirty days to build a case out of nothing but neighbors' receipts, a stubborn silence, and one strange cup of tea she never asked for.

A free prequel short story set before The Glass-Cursed, Book 1 of the Whispers & Wayfarers series — cozy fantasy, warmth first, with real weight underneath.

"The Cup She Left Standing"

by P. H. Blackwood