Books like The House in the Cerulean Sea
A by-the-book caseworker for the Department in Charge of Magical Youth is sent to inspect a secret island orphanage whose children include the Antichrist, and starts to question the rules he has always followed.
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Under the Whispering Door
When a reaper collects Wallace Price at his own funeral, the selfish lawyer is taken to a strange tea shop run by Hugo, a ferryman for souls, where he has to come to terms with the life he barely lived before he crosses over.
The Spellshop
When revolution burns the Great Library of Alyssium, Kiela, a reclusive librarian, escapes by boat with her sentient spider plant, Caz, and a load of forbidden spellbooks to the remote island where she grew up, and starts selling jam while quietly casting spells.
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Mika Moon, one of the few witches in Britain, hides her magic by pretending to be one online, until a message from the mysterious Nowhere House asks her to teach three young witches, to the alarm of its prickly librarian, Jamie.
Legends & Lattes
After a lifetime of swords and blood, Viv the orc mercenary hangs up her blade to open the first coffee shop in the city of Thune, though a strange new drink, old enemies and new friends make it harder than she expected.
The Honey Witch
Twenty-one-year-old Marigold Claude agrees to train as the next Honey Witch on the tiny Isle of Innisfree, though the Honey Witch is cursed so that no one can fall in love with her, and then Lottie Burke, a grumpy sceptic who does not believe in magic, arrives at the cottage.
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
At fifteen, Sera Swan used forbidden magic to try to bring back the aunt who raised her and lost most of her power; fifteen years later she runs Batty Hole, an enchanted inn in Lancashire full of eccentric long-term guests.
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea
Reyna, a guard sworn to a cruel queen, and Kianthe, the most powerful mage in the world, run away together to open the bookshop and tea shop they have always dreamed of in a frontier town, where trouble finds them anyway.
The Teller of Small Fortunes
Tao, a travelling fortune-teller whose small magic sees only small futures, keeps to the road with her mule until a reformed thief and an ex-mercenary ask her help to find a lost child, and a baker and a slightly magical cat join them.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
The crew of a wormhole-tunneling ship takes a lucrative, dangerous long-haul job, and the slow trip becomes a found-family story in a human-scale galaxy.
The Tea Dragon Society
Greta, a blacksmith's apprentice, rescues a lost tea dragon in the market and, returning it, is drawn into the quiet art of caring for the small dragons whose leaves hold memories.
Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter
In 1920s Montreal, Agnes Aubert has to move her overcrowded cat shelter, and the only premises she can afford come cheap for a reason: the basement holds a secret magic shop run by Havelock Renard, a former dark magician.
The House Witch
Finlay Ashowan, the new royal cook of Daxaria, wants only to keep to his kitchen and his secrets, but the magic he cooks into his food soon draws the knights and nobles of the castle to his door.