Comfort Contract
Warm To The Last Page
The biggest risk is a festival no one remembers how to throw, and a great many people determined to throw it anyway.
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Coming 2026
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The Once-a-Century Star Festival
The whole realm has gathered for a festival nobody alive remembers how to run. Etta does the only thing she can: calls in everyone.
The Door Opens
Nobody Alive Remembers How The Star Festival Is Done
Once every hundred years, the whole realm turns out for the Star Festival. The trouble is, it has been a hundred years, and nobody alive remembers how it is done.
The Gadding Goose has been quietly hopping toward this night for as long as Etta Bellwether has known her. Now the festival is days away and badly in danger of being a flop: the old songs forgotten, the rituals half-remembered, the one celebration too big and too rare to wing.
So Etta does the only thing she can. She calls in everyone: every village she has warmed, every guest she has won, every stray member of her own gathered family, all of them under one impossible sky.
She came to this inn wanting a quiet life. What she got was a whole realm's worth of people who would cross it for her.
- Series
- The Gadding Goose, Book Three
- Genre
- Cozy Fantasy
- Tone
- Gentle Stakes · Grand Finale · Found Family
- Release
- Coming 2026
- Format
- eBook and paperback at launch
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