The Things We Never Finished Telling

Liss Tamar runs the harbor-side tea room in Kettermoor. She knows which regulars need the window seat. She knows when to put a cup in front of someone without being asked. After four years, the town knows her name, her rhythms, her tea - and not quite everything else.

She has been comfortable with that arrangement. Until now.

Her younger sister arrives carrying a sealed promise box - a relic of the betrothal Liss broke before she came north. It ends up on the workbench at Voss & Prior, Kettermoor's repair shop for enchanted things, where the keeper identifies the problem immediately: the box will not open until the promise inside it is honestly completed. Not kept. Finished. Which means Liss must receive the history she was never given, account for what she sealed inside, and find words for what she actually felt when she left.

She has vocabulary for everyone else's interior life. Almost none for her own.

Set across a first spring and long summer in the coastal town readers first discovered in The Things We Leave Unfinished, this second installment in The Kettermoor Seasons follows Liss through the slow, specific work of letting a life that is already good become one that is fully true. With Maren and the repair shop as steady ground, her sister's arrival as gentle pressure, and the town's particular brand of warmth doing what it has always done - noticing without prying, helping without making a thing of it - Liss must answer the question belonging eventually asks of everyone:

Is this enough, or do you want to be known?

Perfect for fans of Legends & Lattes, A Psalm for the Wild-Built, and Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries.

Begin the series with The Things We Leave Unfinished - Maren's story, Book 1 of The Kettermoor Seasons.