Cozy LitRPG
Kelvara
A world of small magic, stubborn plants,
and a system that will not stop commenting.
The complete four-book series
For anyone who has been underestimated
The world
Every weed here used to be something else
Every useless weed in Kelvara is a demoted, disgraced or exiled bit of magic, still carrying real skills and a serious attitude problem. Pull one up and it will tell you so.
Magic here is not thrown. It is grown, brewed, bartered and frequently argued with. Power is borrowed rather than owned, so every step forward costs one of your allies something. Verdict, the force that names things, files a note on all of it.
Book One of four
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Weed-Kin
My magic can't throw fireballs. It can't summon storms. It just... talks to weeds.
When Verdict looks into seventeen year old Yarrow Fen and pronounces her Weed-Kin, the whole town of Fenlow Green laughs. No light. No mark. Just the world's most embarrassing magic class, while her neighbours walk away with swords made of light and thunder in their fists.
Then the nettle patch behind her grandmother's failing herb shop starts talking back.
With the guild's flashy healers writing patients off as unfixable and the shop three months behind on rent, Yarrow does not have the luxury of being embarrassed by her class for long.
Coming soon
Paperbacks this year, ebooks from 14 December
All four books are finished. This is when each one reaches you.
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In paperback, before the end of the year
All four of them, in bookshops, online, and through your library.
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In ebook, from 14 December
Kobo, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, and library apps including Libby. Book One arrives on 14 December and the rest follow close behind.
Join The Quiet Cup below and you will hear the day each one lands, with the links in your hand rather than a shop to go hunting through.
The shelves
Series set in Kelvara
Sold as Weeds
Yarrow, a shop she did not ask for, and a patch of weeds with a great deal to say. Herbalism, quiet stakes, and a guild mystery that has been sitting still for thirty years. Weed-Kin, Unearthed, Severed and Weed-Kept.
Enter the series Book One out nowUncharted Skills
A cartographer's series, further out in the same world and a good deal sharper. Maps that fill themselves in, roads that were not there yesterday, and a man who fully intends to get away with it. Book One, Wrongways, is out now. Waywrights (5 November) and Unwalked Lines (3 December) are on pre-order.
Take a look Pre-order, 14 January 2027The Life List Mysteries
A retired schoolteacher, a stubborn donkey and a list of birds forty-six years out of date. Every bird Edie spots leads to a mystery. Cozy, witty and full of birds. Book One, Not a Murder of Crows, is on pre-order, with a new book every two weeks after it.
Meet EdieHow they connect
Each series stands alone and can be read first. They share a world, a system and a sense of humour, and nothing else is required of you. Sold as Weeds is cozy. Uncharted Skills is not, quite. The Life List Mysteries is a cozy mystery that wanders the same roads.
Meet the patch
The rest of the cast is rooted
Yarrow was handed the world's most opinionated support group. Every one of them has real skills, and every one of them has notes.
Solves very nearly everything with more stinging. Has never once been talked out of this.
A disgraced scryer who answers in riddles nobody asked for, and is quietly certain the patch would run better under his supervision.
A reformed plant criminal working extremely hard on a redemption arc. Please do not ask what Bindweed was in for.
Soothing. Gentle. Absolutely, definitely not the most dangerous one in the patch.
Buried thirty years in the back corner, waiting for someone to ask the right question. She remembers a girl named Sorrel.
Reliable, unglamorous, and quietly furious about the new arrival taking up all the good light.
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Letters from the valley
New releases, early chapters, and the occasional plant with something to say. One letter when there is news, and never when there is not.
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