The Inn at the Wandering Number
By Nelda Quinn
Warm
A magical inn has appeared in Alderwren.
The problem is, no one remembers checking in.
During the town’s Festival of Open Doors, meticulous records clerk Angela Lark discovers a tiny blue inn occupying an address that did not exist the day before. Its guests insist they have been staying there for years, yet each remembers a different innkeeper—and every one of them has surrendered something important in exchange for rest.
A beloved place. The ability to say no. The certainty that leaving is allowed.
Then Moth, Alderwren’s sharp-eyed tortoiseshell cat, leads Angela to Room Seven—a room that appears on no map and hides a caretaker who has been trapped inside the inn for decades.
As the inn moves from one welcoming address to another, Angela and her friends must uncover the truth behind its comforting guest agreement before it chooses a new keeper. For charm-maker Pippa Vale, the inn’s promise of perfect refuge is dangerously tempting: a place where no one must ever leave before they are safe.
But a shelter that cannot release its guests is only another kind of cage.
Warm, whimsical, and gently mysterious, The Inn at the Wandering Number is the second book in The Alderwren Threshold Mysteries, a cozy fantasy series filled with impossible doors, found family, slow-blooming romance, comforting food, and a magical cat who always knows when something is waiting to be found.
