The Cake & Pewter Chronicles
Cozy Romantic Fantasy
In a land where magical powers are restricted to a small, privileged class, a few women push the boundaries of what is possible …
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Cake & Pewter
The novelette that started it all
Year 97 AGD
In a land where magical powers are restricted to the privileged few, Lucy Baker doesn’t trust power or the people who have it, especially not when they visit her family’s bakery café and cause trouble. Then Liam Girard shows up, a playful monk with some power and trouble of his own.
Liam has come to Azure City on a mission. He’s pursuing rumors about a collection of banned books with truths about powers their society has long forgotten. The stakes are high enough, and Liam proves charming enough, that Lucy joins his search. But will they find the hidden library before its books fall into the wrong hands?
“The Monk’s Knife”
The prequel short story
Year 97 AGD
How to protect yourself against powers you don’t have?
Lucy Baker has been asking herself that question more and more lately. In a land where magical powers are restricted to the privileged few, she doesn’t trust power or the people who have it, especially not when they visit her family’s bakery café and cause trouble. Now conflict is brewing with no one in sight to protect the innocent cafe-goers. Will Lucy, herself, prove equal to the task?
Other stories in the series
now available and forthcoming

Year 85 AGD
“To Pause for the Watch“
Of all the acts of rebellion Gembira could choose, staying to take her shift for the abbey watch will likely accomplish little … or will it?
(forthcoming January 2027 on Substack)

Year 97 AGD
“A Bronze Candelabra”
appeared in the May 25, 2026 issue of Academy of the Heart and Mind

Year 97 AGD
The Cake & Pewter Sequel Novelette
(forthcoming May 2027 on Substack)
The First Novel in the Cake & Pewter Chronicles is Forthcoming Spring 2027 from Clay Patin Press!
Watch here for more information



