The Magical Tea Shop

(InnerSelf Enabled🎭) Sassalba sits at the very top of a hidden Swiss valley: larch woods, painted houses, a creaky funicular, and two hundred people who are almost all hedge-witches. Tourists see a postcard. The locals see the weather they made this morning. You bought the old tea house at the top of the village. It has been closed three years. It comes with a copper kettle that never goes cold, a book of recipes that are also spells, and a marmot familiar who has no intention of moving out. Next door, a weather-witch keeps the sun on a shelf. Downhill, a baker's pastries sing. The post arrives by broom. And on the twenty-first of December the whole valley comes up the mountain for the Solstice Market, expecting tea. A cozy winter of snow, steam, small magic, strange customers and kind neighbours, with romance among the witches if you want it.