Why You Need to Visit Batty Hole This Weekend

Once Britain’s greatest magical prodigy, Sera Swan now lives a quiet life running an inn with her great-aunth Jasmine and a bunch of a chaotic lodgers who ended up at the inn for a night but stayed on. They soon gelled up like a chosen family.

Everything changes when Sera uses a forbidden spell to resurrect her Jasmine, a desperate act that costs her both almost all of her magic and her place in the elite British Guild. Exiled by her power-hungry mentor, Albert Grey, Sera spends fifteen years in the magical shadows, maintaining Batty Hole, a bartered inn, held up by old angry magical spell which keeps away the troublemakes but lures those who are lost and broken.

Her chance at redemption arrives via a rare restoration spell written in a forgotten tongue. With the help of Luke Larsen, a charming Guild historian who stirs more than just her hope, Sera begins a journey to reclaim her power. But Albert hasn’t forgotten his only true rival and he’ll do anything to ensure she stays powerless.

Meet the lodgers!

Matilda: An old lady who came to inn years ago and never left. She’s a garderner who’s very possasive of vegetable patch. She has a dream to have goats on her farm.

Nicholas: A 23 years old who is way too much invested into his role of a knight from a cosplay at the nearby Medieval Fair that he is always in his suit of armor.

Theo: A magical eleve-years-old cousin, came to live sera as his non-magical parents don’t know how to deal with him and his powers and raise him.

Roo-Roo: A zombie skeletal chicken which came back from dead as a side effect of Sera’s reserection spell while reviving Jasmine.

Posy: A youngest member of the family who’s autistic younger sibling of Luke Larsen. She takes refuge at the inn but spreads joyful energey around herself.

Luke Larsen: A grumpy magical historian who ends up being a love interest of sara and a reluctant member of the family to begin with. But ends up being a strong support and caregiver for the inn and it’s family.

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