Some memories are too heavy to carry alone.

Fifty years ago, Elspeth Vane asked the Moonleaf Tea Shop to take a memory away — the night her sister died. The shop has been carrying it ever since, sealed in a black bottle in a cellar that only appears when the shop trusts you.

Now the bottle is cracking. All over Briar Hollow, small forgettings have begun: a widow forgets her husband's face for an hour. A sprite forgets the song that wakes the moonleaf. If the bottle breaks, fifty years of grief will return to Elspeth all at once, in a single cup.

Wren Halloway refused to brew the forgetting tea. What she offers instead is harder: a whole town, walking one lantern-lit path at dusk, each person carrying one small piece of Elspeth's story home — because a memory shared freely counts double, and grief shared weighs half.

The Forgetting Tea is Book 2 of the Moonleaf Lane cozy fantasy series — a warm, low-stakes story about tea, kindness, and the things we carry together. Start with Book 1, The Tea Shop at the End of Moonleaf Lane.