Can't Spell Treason Without Tea
Reyna has spent ten years guarding a queen who would gladly send her to die in the next war. Kianthe is the Arcandor, the most powerful mage in the realm, a title that has eaten every relationship she has ever tried to build. The two women fake Reyna's death and ride for the mountains, where they open Tomes and Tea, a bookshop and tea house in a sleepy village called Tawney. There is a dragon nesting in the cliffs. There is a community garden. There is a queen who has not given up looking. Thorne builds the romance, the village, and the bookshop side by side across two alternating points of view.
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A royal guard and the realm's most powerful mage fake their deaths and open a sapphic tea-and-bookshop in a sleepy mountain village.
Yes. Can't Spell Treason Without Tea is a sapphic cozy fantasy about a knight and a mage opening a tea shop together. It is widely cited alongside Legends and Lattes as a defining title of the modern cozy fantasy subgenre.
Yes. Rebecca Thorne has continued the world with sequels in the Tomes and Tea series, including A Pirate's Life for Tea. Each book stays in cozy territory with the same central couple.
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea was written by Rebecca Thorne, published in 2022 by Pan Macmillan.
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea is 335 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Can't Spell Treason Without Tea takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
