The Last Spoonful Inn

Every guest who sleeps at the Last Spoonful Inn pays the same price: one memory, named aloud and freely given, returned clean by morning. Mara Vado has kept that bargain for eleven years - ever since the fever night she broke every rule of her own house to save her dying sister, and lost her sense of taste as the cost. Then a jar in her pantry stays warm past sunrise. A guest wakes remembering that she paid - but not what she gave up. Someone is intercepting the returns, and whatever they're building, they're building it inside Mara's own kitchen. Inside this cozy fantasy mystery, you'll find:

• A traveling inn that surfaces for one night in each of nine kingdoms - and a cook who reads a room by smell, heat, and instinct instead of taste
• A methodical hospitality inspector who becomes an unlikely ally
• A former innkeeper with a genuinely tempting philosophy: erase the pain instead of merely charging for a night's relief from it
• A found-family cast who solve the mystery not with a bigger magic, but with honest consent, openly offered
• A slow-burn reckoning with grief, guilt, and an estranged sister - with zero romance on the page