The Lost & Found · Cosy fantasy romance
Some things are lost. Some things are only mislaid.
At the end of the only road into Ashthorn there is a shop where lost things come back: a mother’s laugh, the colour of a door, a thimble three farms over. Nothing comes back for nothing, and the price is never the thing you would gladly hand over.
Standalone romances set in one small village, each complete in itself, with a mystery under the shop that runs through them all.
Book One Out now
Nothing comes back for nothing.
Free · A Lost & Found prequel novella
The Keeper of Thimbles and Thread
Forty years before Isolde walked up the hill, the bell rang for someone else.
Halligan has come to Ashthorn to keep the shuttered Lost and Found. Enid Pryor keeps the draper’s next door, has held the shop’s key for five months, and has no intention of handing it over. She also has not felt the warmth of a fire in two winters, and she has told nobody.
About an evening’s read. Clean: one kiss, in the rain, over a fence. A complete romance, then one short chapter forty years on that opens the door of Book One.
Reading order
The Lost & Found
Read them in order and you watch a village change. Start anywhere and each one still ends where it should.
No. 0 · Prequel
The Keeper of Thimbles and Thread
Free
The keeper before Isolde, and the draper who held his key.
No. 1
The Keeper of Small Recoveries
Out now
An exiled keeper, the soldier sent to watch her, and a shop that mends them both.
No. 2
The Keeper of Bread and Bees
Out now
A loaf no one living knows how to bake, and a love that already happened once.
No. 3
The Keeper of Clocks and Courage
Out now
A man who cannot say what he wants, and a nine-year-old who has to ask for her courage back.
What you will find in Ashthorn
Warm, honest, and complete
Clean romance, carried to the end
Yearning, careful hands, and a kiss that is earned. Every couple gets a complete happy ending, and nothing explicit happens on the page or off it.
Grief, gently done
The shop mends what grief takes, and grief is what these books are made of. Every book has a content note you can read before you start.
One village, one mystery
Each book stands alone with its own couple. Underneath the shop, something is unravelling the kingdom’s memory, and that story runs from book to book.
About
Linnea Birch
Linnea Birch writes cosy fantasy romance about small towns, stubborn people, and the griefs they hand across a counter. She is fond of moths, unreliable weather, and shops that are shut when they ought to be open.
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