A Harvest of Hearts

Foss Butcher is a plain, clumsy, practical young woman, the daughter of a butcher, living in a kingdom where magic-workers take human hearts to fuel their spells. She has never expected anyone to want hers. So when a sorcerer accidentally snags a piece of it, she is furious.

Foss marches to the grand City to make him repair the damage before she collapses. The sorcerer, Sylvester, is petulant and idle, and still new to his powers. He has no idea how to reverse what he has done.

Foss has a talking cat as her only friend, and the walls of Sylvester's enchanted House have moods of their own. While she hunts for a cure, she learns that the taking of hearts, and the magic-workers behind it, hold far more than she had imagined.

Cozy and whimsical, in the vein of Howl's Moving Castle and The House in the Cerulean Sea, the story runs on adventure and common sense. Foss's bluntness meets a household that refuses to behave, and whether a cure exists at all stays open.