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Summer Ashby

Summer Ashby writes the kind of stories that keep the lamps lit long after midnight. She grew up in the UK, on windswept North East beaches and summer trips to the Lake District, where every stone wall and misty fell seemed to be hiding a story. One of her favourite childhood memories is a glass of sarsaparilla as a special treat, and that taste of something old fashioned and a little bit magic found its way into her books. She still loves wandering the UK, from crooked village shops to old churchyards and castles, and she has never met an ancient oak she didn't want to talk to.

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BEHIND THE VEIL

Terriers, crows and Terry Pratchett

A lifelong Terry Pratchett fan, Summer now lives somewhere on the North American continent with two very spoiled terriers. Every morning a gang of crows follows them on their walk, and she suspects they're reporting back to someone. She writes late at night with a pot of tea, a raven for a muse and a weakness for anything that glows in the dark. Step inside. Mind the old oak on the village green.

THE STORIES

Magic, mystery, and one more chapter.

Her series, Tales from the Thin Veil, is set in a village where the line between our world and the other one has worn very thin. Catriona came for a quiet life and inherited a shop full of secrets. There's an ancient oak called Old Jack who remembers everything, a raven named Inkwell who guards the ink a little too fiercely, and a Hallowe'en that nearly tears the village apart. These are cozy fantasy stories with teeth. There's warm tea and old friends, but also bargains that cost more than they should, and doors that should stay closed.