The Weather Witch's Teaboat
A Cozy Fantasy Novel of Tea, Canal Boats and Found Family

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
For sixteen years Ismay Marchant made the weather the Crown ordered: sunshine for festivals, dry roads for parades. Then one morning she could not lift a single cloud, and she walked away from the court without a word.

Two years later she has spent her savings on a sunken canal boat at Hollin Lock, a quiet stretch of water in the hills. The boat is called the Dunnock, and she means to turn it into a floating tea shop. Tea, fruit loaf and scones for the boatmen, and for a penny extra, a little weather by the cup: a hush of still air, a gentle shower under the awning, a breath of warm sunshine.

She is not alone for long. The grumpy lock keeper counts every boat. A young boatwoman wants her late grandmother's boat back. A slow-spoken boatbuilder starts painting roses on the cabin. The inspector from the Navigation Board has a bylaw for everything, and the owner of the tea hut by the lock does not take kindly to a rival. And something small and cross has been living in the coal box for two winters, waiting for its sugar.

As autumn deepens and the first frost creeps down the canal, Ismay must decide what her magic is for, and whether a witch who has run from everything can finally stay in one place.

A low-stakes cozy fantasy full of tea, canal boats, weather magic and found family, and the first story in the Tales of Hollin Lock.