Secrets at the Aviary Inn

She arrives in York with a boyfriend, a backpack, and a photograph her mother never explained.

Within twenty-four hours, the boyfriend's gone — and Sophie Groenveld is alone in a foreign country with no money, no passport, and nowhere to turn. What saves her is a stranger's kindness, a job offer with no questions asked, and an inn unlike anything she's ever seen.

The Aviary Inn is beautiful and faded, presided over by the quietly enigmatic Ava Roxtoby — a woman who tends her birds with tender devotion, keeps the world at a careful distance, and