The Faraway Inn Published by Delacorte Press on March 31, 2026 Genres: Cozy Fantasy, Young Adult
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A teen girl decides to spend her summer helping her eccentric great aunt manage her quaint Vermont inn—only to discover that the fixer-upper is hiding a magical secret—in this cozy and irresistible new young adult fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop.
“Frosted with whimsy and sprinkled with joy, The Faraway Inn is a testament to why Sarah Beth Durst is the queen of cozy fantasy!”—Tricia Levenseller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Darkness Within Us
When sixteen-year-old Calisa arrives at her great-aunt’s B&B in rural Vermont for the summer, she’s shocked to find a rundown inn rather than the cozy bed-and-breakfast she was expecting. Grumpy and eccentric, Auntie Zee is determined to keep anyone from messing with her beloved inn . . . even though she clearly needs the help.
To convince her great-aunt to keep her around, Calisa sets to work fixing up the inn, enlisting extra help from the groundskeeper’s (handsome) son. But the longer she stays, the surer she is that there’s something strange about the B&B—and its guests. Something almost . . . otherworldly.
The inn is keeping a magical secret—but to protect the place she’s come to love, Calisa must unravel the truth before it’s too late.
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I am addicted to Sarah Beth Durst’s writing and knew I had to try this when I saw the blurb. It gives me vibes of the Innkeeper series by Ilona Andrews but a younger version. We have Calisa, a 16-year-old who comes to her great aunt’s B&B for the summer. The guests are odd to say the least but also enchanting. I really enjoyed learning more about each of them and why they were at the B&B. Her aunt wants nothing to do with her, but when she goes missing, Calisa will stop at nothing to find her. Magical secrets come to light and even a little romance blossoms. This is a feel-good cozy fantasy you will not want to put down. I highly recommend it to YA fantasy lovers looking for a magical read.
