The Fox and the Innkeeper

A Cozy Fantasy of Fox Spirits, Found Family, and the Magic of Coming Home

By: Devon Yates

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

He's a fox spirit who answers to no one. She's an innkeeper running on stubbornness and her mother's recipes. The building between them has plans for them both.

Set two centuries before the Amazon bestselling The Inn at Thistledown Hollow, this is the story of how the Lavender Fox Inn found its first guardian — and how its guardian found home.

Kip broke into the wrong garden. Now Rosemary's offering him a job, her shortbread is doing something suspicious to his heart, and the inn keeps unlatching doors he didn't ask to walk through.

Ten weeks. That's the deal. Help with the spring season, then leave freely.

The problem with freedom is that sometimes the cage you're running from was never locked in the first place.

A cozy, gaslamp fantasy of found family, hearth magic, and one very opinionated building. For fans of Legends & Lattes, T. Kingfisher, and warm drinks on cold mornings.

Profound & Beautiful

This book, I venture to say, will be my favorite read of 2026. The author writes with what I can best describe as the acumen of profound insight into the human experience. The book is a cozy fantasy, sure, but it is really SO much more than a “found family” trope; it is a glimpse into what it means to show up in this life we are given. It speaks to our individual stake in the propulsion of the history of civilization. The cleverness of the author in weaving portent warnings alongside threads of heartwarming mutually overcome struggles is both inspiring and comforting. I simply cannot say enough about this beautiful book. It is a MUST read/listen!