Where the Wild Things Rise
Description
Marigold Hale inherits a bakery in a Vermont town that doesn't appear on any map. The ley lines cross beneath the cobblestones. The hardware store is run by a Green Man. The local detective has Mothman ancestry.
Her grandmother spent thirty years stocking a larder of ley-adjacent ingredients and left no instructions. Just letters, timed to arrive when Mari was ready.
The bread she bakes in this place does things bread isn't supposed to do. When a child goes missing near her window, Mari bakes a search bread at three in the morning before she knows anyone is gone. That bread finds the girl. It also opens a mystery that runs deeper than one disappearance, all the way to a broken gate in the valley's eastern ridge that someone tried to repair with incomplete knowledge, and the town waiting for the baker who could finish it.
