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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H61FH854 Cira Ashvane has spent four years moving through the world one temporary room at a time, her herbalist's kit always by the door, always ready to leave. When she stops in Emberfalls to wait out the winter, she expects nothing more than a quiet season and an early spring departure. What she finds instead is an inn full of people with extraordinary abilities learning to live alongside them — and a community that makes room for her before she's decided to stay. With her mismatched eyes, Cira sees truth and deception in everyone around her. It's a gift that has made her useful, wary, and very good at leaving. But Emberfalls is different from the places she's passed through. Nobody here asks about her eyes before they ask her name. The chair at the end of the long table is always cleared. And the river outside the village does something at dusk that she has no name for — something that makes her stop walking and just look. As winter closes the roads and the renovation of the inn's east wing draws her deeper into the community's daily life, Cira finds herself designing an herb drying room she intends to use, planning a kitchen garden she claims is for whoever comes after her, and sitting in a chair that has been kept for her since her first week. She has been planning to leave at the Thaw. Herbs and Embers is a cozy fantasy novel about belonging, ability, and what it means to finally put your kit in the wardrobe — the first book in the Emberfalls trilogy. Book cover made with AI