Tea Time and Cookies: A (not so) Quiet Beginning

Life ended quietly. Rebirth? Not so much.

I'd lived a perfectly normal nerd-life: a family, a career, too many hobbies, and a purse full of "just-in-case" items. Gardening, old crafting techniques, reading, manga, animé-especially the alternate-world kind. If I had one regret, it was not traveling as much as I'd wanted.

But all things end eventually.

I expected nothingness... or whatever reward awaited after a long, fulfilling life.

Instead, I woke up to the very real problem of a massive creature trying to eat me.

I'd been reborn into another world.
I should have been thrilled, right?

With very little to go on-aside from the fact that magic existed here-I decided the smartest approach was to keep a low profile and train like crazy. Survive first. Explore later.

My new family seemed pleasantly surprised (and occasionally alarmed) by my dedication to both physical and magical training. And once I started attending school, I made fast friends... then accidentally convinced them to apprentice under my father.

The more the merrier, I figured.

But hiding my abilities is proving harder than expected, and the more I grow, the more certain people seem unsettled by my existence.

Surviving to adulthood may be the real challenge.

*This is a slow-burn, coming-of-age story with early magic training. It is not a romance-yet.

**This series is marked Mature not for explicit content in this volume, but because later books will include heavier themes. I prefer to err on the side of caution.

***I am a Canadian author. English spelling follows Canadian usage.

****Note about the cover image and banners: The cover and banners were created with AI assistance in Canva.