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.
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 for people who need a place to rest. She lives with more animals than is strictly sensible, keeps a garden that has strong opinions about being kept, and believes that paying attention to small things is one of the more underrated forms of magic.
"What the Inn Remembers" is her debut novel.
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