★★★★★Read 10 chaptersyesterday
Worth staying up late for
The opening chapter had me hooked, and the slow reveal keeps paying off. Characters feel like real people with real reasons.
Every published chapter is free to read.
A retired swordswoman opens a six-seat tea house in a mountain pass that is snowed in five months of the year. Travellers arrive with frostbite and secrets. She serves them tea, mends what she can, and pretends not to recognise the ones who once tried to kill her.
The opening chapter had me hooked, and the slow reveal keeps paying off. Characters feel like real people with real reasons.
Gorgeous prose and an unusual premise. The middle stretch is slower, but the last arc is worth every chapter.
Comfort reading with surprising depth. I look forward to every new release and reread the free chapters often.