A Steep and Dreamless Sleep

One cup was meant to honor Brackenport's past. Instead, it traps a woman in a sleep no remedy can break.

Tea witch Willow Wren takes every precaution when she brews a historical chamomile blend for the village's Lantern Tide celebration. The jar arrives sealed, the instructions appear complete, and every ingredient is carefully measured. But after Mara Vane takes two sips, she falls into an unnatural sleep-and her tea refuses to cool.

With Mara's condition worsening and suspicion settling over The Steeping House, Willow traces the enchanted blend through Brackenport's misty harbor, crowded archive, and glass-roofed gardens. Aided by her sharp-tongued familiar, Thimble, and the steady Elias Reed, she uncovers hidden writing in an ancient folio, altered records, a rare magical salt, and the forgotten story of a healer whose work was stolen generations ago.

The deeper Willow searches, the clearer it becomes that someone used the village's buried grievance as a weapon. Uncovering the culprit will not be enough. Unless the enchantment is broken before Lantern Tide reaches high water, Mara's dreamless sleep may become permanent.

To save her, Willow must recover the truth, expose the person who tampered with the tea, and give a silenced woman the choice she was never offered.

A Steep and Dreamless Sleep is an atmospheric cozy witch mystery filled with harbor magic, witty familiar banter, historical secrets, gentle romance, and a careful tea witch who understands that every remedy should begin with consent.