The Faraway Inn

Sixteen-year-old Calisa arrives in rural Vermont for the summer, expecting the cozy bed-and-breakfast her great-aunt runs. What she finds is a rundown building badly in need of repair. Auntie Zee, the aunt in question, is grumpy and eccentric, and she wants nobody tampering with her beloved inn, though she plainly cannot manage it alone.

Calisa wants to stay, so she sets about proving she is useful. She starts fixing the place up, and she gets extra hands from the groundskeeper's son, whom she notices is handsome. Whether Auntie Zee will let her remain depends on how well the work goes.

The longer Calisa lives there, the more oddities pile up, in the building and among the guests. Something about them feels otherworldly. The inn, it turns out, is keeping a magical secret, and Calisa grows fond enough of the place that she wants to protect it. To do that she has to work out the truth before time runs out.

This is young adult fantasy with a cozy tone, set over a single summer in a small, old inn. Expect a warm, light mood built on repairs, a prickly relative and a growing mystery, with a hint of romance on the side.