Ember Penrose Returns to Nine Ashes with THE TEA ROOM AT THE BAKERY
Book Six in Her Cozy Fantasy Series
A tea room, a village that finally starts talking, and a mother and daughter learning to say what they’ve carried in silence — now available in ebook, paperback, hardcover, and audiobook.
GLADBROOK, IOWA — August 3, 2026 — Cozy fantasy author Ember Penrose has released The Tea Room at the Bakery, the sixth novel in her acclaimed Elves of Nine Ashes series. The book is available now in ebook, paperback, and hardcover on Amazon, and in audiobook on Amazon and Audible.
On the chalkboard outside the bakery’s side door, Etha has written three words and one promise. Inside, in the back room with the high window that catches the morning’s first light, she has begun something she does not yet have a name for.
The teas she blends — chamomile and bread crumb, mugwort and rosemary, an unnamed leaf the Whisperwood pressed into her palm one dawn — do small kind things to the people who drink them. A carpenter falls asleep at the window table for the first time since the frost. A weaver leaves a coaster on the counter and never explains. Two neighbors who haven’t spoken in ten years find themselves at the same table. The village of Nine Ashes is beginning to come to Etha for the cup, not the charm — and the difference is the only thing she has ever been afraid of.
Then a woman she has known her whole life sits at the corner table and tells Etha something her mother never could.
The sixth book in The Elves of Nine Ashes is a quiet, deeply sensory novel about craft, belonging, and the silences inside a family that finally learns to speak. It’s perfect for readers of Travis Baldree, Becky Chambers, and Heather Fawcett — and for anyone who has ever sat in a room kind enough to hold what they could not yet say.
Set in the world of Nine Ashes, the novels can be read in any order — though readers who have visited Nine Ashes before will find familiar faces in the bakery, the forge, the chandlery, and at the edge of the Whisperwood.
Where to Buy
Ebook: $3.99 — Amazon (also free for Kindle Unlimited members)
Paperback: $14.99 — Amazon
Hardcover: $19.95 — Amazon
Audiobook: $3.99 — Amazon and Audible (also free for Audible Plus members)
Buy link: https://amzn.to/4wAgIcd
Kindle Unlimited and Audible Plus members can enjoy The Tea Room at the Bakery — and the rest of the Elves of Nine Ashes series — free with membership.
About the Elves of Nine Ashes
The Elves of Nine Ashes is a cozy fantasy series set in the elven village of Nine Ashes, in the world of Aldenmere — a place founded on an old promise of peace and still shaped by it. Each book is a standalone novel following a different resident of the village through a gentle, character-driven arc centered on craft, community, and belonging. There are no villains in Nine Ashes, only neighbors — and magic that moves quietly through ordinary, kind things.
Also in the series:
Book 1: The Weaver’s Thread
Book 2: The Forge and the Flame
Book 3: The Long Road Home
Book 4: Soft Light, Slow Fire
Book 5: The Hum at the Heart
About Ember Penrose
Ember Penrose grew up in a small New England town, reading under a particular oak tree she has never stopped thinking about. After a decade spent doing something sensible with her literature degree, she decided sensible was overrated and began writing the stories she actually wanted to read: slow, quiet stories where nobody is chosen, nothing needs saving, and the magic lives in ordinary kindness between neighbors. Nine Ashes, the elven village at the heart of her books, is the town she has always been trying to find. She lives with one elderly cat named Sorrel and a deeply unreasonable herb garden.
Media Contact
Lisa Woodward
We Woodwards Publishing
Email: Lisa@wewoodwards.com
