A3sth3ticMuse
Former child star and empathic witch Scarlett Hawthorne broke down on live television at 25 and vanished from the world.
Four years later, she flees to the deepest Vermont maple woods with three boxes of sleeping pills and a death wish.
She only wants to disappear.
But the 137-year-old sugarhouse starts trash-talking her, a 27-pound calico cat claims her face as a bed, a sobbing runaway teen won't let go of her waist, and a silent, axe-wielding veteran begins splitting firewood on her porch every dusk.
This isn't a hero's journey.
It's just an exhausted witch learning to make maple lattes, cinnamon rolls, and caramel puddings that taste like forgiveness...
while broken people drift in like autumn leaves, looking for the same warm hearth she never meant to offer.