"The Threshold and the Apothecary"

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Hollow’s Bend has a ward in its doorframes and a story about how it got there. This is what actually happened. In 1826, Verity Lewis can stand in a room and tell you whether the house is holding or letting go. The town decided a long while ago what she was and settled on being pleased about it. She has never once used the word witch about herself and does not care for it when they do. Then a nine-year-old will not get well. A fire keeps going out over dry wood on a night with no wind in it anywhere. And what is wrong with that house is not something Verity can put right on her own. What it takes is two people. The second has to be somebody the town has no claim on, and the only man in Hollow’s Bend who qualifies is an apothecary five months off the coach who does not believe her yet. A free novelette, cozy and closed door, and HEA standalone.