Kelvara, Series One
Sold as Weeds
She inherited a shop, a garden and a class nobody has heard of. The garden had notes.
Complete in four books
The premise
The worst class in town, and the loudest garden
Seventeen year old Yarrow Fen wanted a quiet life and a shop that paid for itself. Verdict, the force that names things in Kelvara, handed her Weed-Kin instead, and the whole town of Fenlow Green laughed. No light. No mark. Then the nettle patch behind her grandmother's herb shop started talking back.
Every useless weed in Kelvara is a demoted, disgraced or exiled bit of magic, still carrying real skills and a serious attitude problem. Every technique Yarrow learns belongs to one of them, and every one of them pays a price to use it. The stronger the working, the more it costs somebody, which turns each upgrade into a decision rather than a number going up.
Underneath the shop hours and the seed trays there is a thirty year old cover-up inside the healers' guild, and the more the garden remembers, the closer it gets. Four books later it has all of it, and the story ends where it started, at home in Fenlow Green.
Reading order
Four books, start to finish
Read them in order. Each one closes its own door, and the fourth closes the series.
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Weed-Kin
My magic can't throw fireballs. It can't summon storms. It just... talks to weeds.
The whole town of Fenlow Green laughs when Verdict looks into seventeen year old Yarrow Fen and pronounces her Weed-Kin. No light, no mark, just the world's most embarrassing class, while her neighbours walk away with swords made of light. Then the nettle patch behind her grandmother's failing herb shop starts talking back, and Yarrow finds herself running the world's most opinionated support group. Nettle, who solves everything with more stinging. Dandelion, a disgraced scryer answering riddles nobody asked for. Bindweed, hard at work on a redemption arc. And Chamomile, who is definitely not the most dangerous one in the patch.
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02
Unearthed
The garden kept one more secret, and it is finally ready to grow.
Six months on, Yarrow has a fragile peace. A full order book, a grudging truce with the guild, and allies who trust her a little more every day. Then Nettle sends her digging in the one corner of the garden nobody ever talks about, and what comes up is not a weed at all. Comfrey has been buried for thirty years, waiting for someone to ask the right question, and she remembers a girl named Sorrel.
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03
Severed
It is not a prison, and it is not a collection.
A transfer order arrives with a name on it. Halloway is a handsome house with nobody living in it and four acres of walled garden behind it, and in that garden are thirteen plants set out in tidy rows with wide bare margins between them, so that nothing can reach anything. Not one of them will speak to her. Thirty-one bonded healers have gone out of the guild's records in forty years, every one of them a woman nobody would think to look for, and somebody in a district office has spent thirty-four years quietly deciding which women those were.
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04
Weed-Kept
Comfrey has gone quiet, and a plant who has never once been short of an opinion does not go quiet for nothing.
Somewhere at the far end of a bond that was cut thirty years ago, the woman who used to be Comfrey's healer is still alive. Reaching for her costs Comfrey days at a time, and gives Yarrow a direction and nothing else. No distance, no road, no name. So they go north. For thirty years somebody has walked a quiet round, four times a year, checking that severed women stay severed and that nothing reaches across the cut. Comfrey has just been noticed. The finale of the series, and the book that asks Yarrow what her class has actually been for all along.
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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.
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What to expect
For anyone who has ever been underestimated
- Cozy fantasy with bite, and found family with thorns.
- A progression story where the worst class turns out to be the best one.
- Verdict, a naming force with a dry sense of humour and a filing habit.
- A village worth living in, a shop worth running, and a mystery worth digging up.
- No grimdark, no gratuitous cliffhangers. Each book closes its own door.
- A finished series. No waiting to find out whether it ever gets an ending.
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