The Inn That Wasn't There Yesterday

The Door Opens

All Etta Bellwether Wants Is A Quiet Life

Eight years running a grand-duchess's household, anticipating every need, smoothing every scandal, and being thanked for exactly none of it has cured Etta of wanting anything more. So when she inherits a sleepy little inn from an aunt she barely remembers, she hangs up her keys, puts the kettle on, and sits down to rest at last.

The inn has other ideas.

The Gadding Goose is the wandering inn from the old story: the one that finds you when your celebration is falling apart, if you know how to write to it. A letter arrives. The whole building picks up and hops across the realm in the night. Etta wakes beside a village wedding in spectacular trouble: two feuding families, a fizzled betrothal-charm, and a cake that will not stop levitating.

With a grumbling hob, a chaotic kitchen-sprite, a goat who considers herself management, and a traveling tinker who keeps turning up to help, Etta has until the ceremony to pull off the loveliest celebration the village has ever seen. And maybe, just once, get thanked for it.