Nora Ellery
Enter a world of hidden forest inns, gentle magic, warm kitchens, and weary souls finding their way home. Nora Ellery’s cozy fantasy stories are filled with quiet wonder, soft healing, and the kind of belonging that lingers long after the fire burns low.
The Alderveil is changing. More travellers are finding its roads, and beyond the inn a new wayhouse is taking shape on the remains of an ancient ring.
Ingle knows how to build such a place. Stone, timber, fire, and useful work have carried her through more years than she cares to count. Staying has not.
But as the new wayhouse takes shape, so does a community around it. And the woman who has spent so long keeping one small coal alive may have to decide what it means when there is finally a hearth ready to receive it.
What the Hearth Remembers, the next novel of Alderveil, available now.
In Mara’s early days at the Alderveil, a cracked cup seems like one more ordinary problem to solve. The inn needs supplies, repairs, and a great many things put in order, and Mara is good at putting things in order. But when six sensible new cups arrive, one old, mismatched cup refuses to become quite as unnecessary as it ought to be.
The Cup That Didn’t Match is a quiet Alderveil story about mending, usefulness, and the small ways a place begins to feel like home.
Before there was an inn full of found family, there were journeys.
Long before they gathered around the hearth at Alderveil, each of its residents carried a different story.
These ten interconnected stories reveal how the residents of the Alderveil Inn became the people readers first meet in the trilogy. Each tale stands alone, yet together they form a portrait of a world quietly forgetting its magic—and of the ordinary acts of care that keep it alive.
Warm, hopeful, and quietly magical, this companion collection is filled with found family, gentle wonder, healing after loss, and the kind of courage that grows one small kindness at a time.
Whether you're returning to Alderveil or discovering it for the first time, these stories invite you to step inside, warm your hands by the fire, and stay awhile.
The Alderveil Trilogy is set in a world where magic is sustained by being known — recognized, remembered, witnessed. As the world forgets its oldest places and beings, those who are fading make their way to a crumbling inn at the edge of an ancient forest, where the ground still remembers what it was.
If you're new to this world, The Last Keeping is a perfect place to start. It's a small, self-contained story about one of those beings — where she came from, what she lost, and how she found her way to a kitchen that needed her.
Nora Ellery
Nora Ellery writes cozy fantasy featuring old magic, found family, stubborn hope, and entirely too many cups of tea. She has a particular fondness for ancient inns, overgrown gardens, dragons with complicated feelings, and stories that offer comfort without looking away from difficult things.
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