Series · Ongoing
Bracken Hollow Tales
A moss-edged village, and the small, stranger things that live beside it.
In Bracken Hollow, the smallest creatures notice what people will not say. A frightened Mossfur finds its way into an apothecary’s shop. A farrier hears a voice beneath his hammer. And the old woodland has not forgotten the village built beside it.
Bracken Hollow Tales follows the healers, craftspeople and neighbours who begin to listen. These are warm, quietly mysterious fantasies about practical kindness, tender companionship and the courage it takes to belong somewhere without hiding who you are.
Start with The Little Apothecary for Lost Creatures, then follow Rowan Vale into The Farrier’s Forge of Echoes. Read in order to watch the relationships deepen and the village’s older secrets unfold.
Reading order
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The Little Apothecary for Lost Creatures
by Elspeth Thorne
“For the small, frightened things that know how to disappear.”
Elspeth Thorne didn't come to the moss-edged village of Bracken Hollow to be a hero. She came to be quiet, to be useful, and, most importantly, to be unseen. As an apothecary specializing in the care of magical creatures, she prefers the company of skittish Mossfurs and wounded Dusk-hares to the assessing stares of the local villagers.
The Farrier’s Forge of Echoes
by Elspeth Thorne
“Iron keeps its shape. It was never meant to keep a village’s secrets.”
Rowan Vale knows the language of iron: the heat it needs, the weight it carries, the sound of a clean strike. Then a horseshoe answers his hammer with a voice that should not be there.