A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking

Fourteen-year-old Mona isn't like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can't control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt's bakery making gingerbread men dance.

But Mona's life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona's city, preying on magic folk, and it appears that Mona is his next target. And in an embattled city suddenly bereft of wizards, the assassin may be the least of Mona's worries...

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A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking

This title is not currently available for purchase at The Cozy Lantern Archive, but you can still check out our hand selected cozy pairings below.

A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking

This title is not currently available for purchase at The Cozy Lantern Archive, but you can still check out our hand selected cozy pairings below.

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Brown Sugar Cinnamon

Brown Sugar Cinnamon is a warm, bakery-inspired fragrance that wraps you in the comforting sweetness of brown sugar and melted butter, gently spiced with cinnamon. Rich and inviting, this scent evokes the feeling of something freshly baked lingering in the air, soft and golden with just a touch of indulgence. Smooth and well balanced, it brings a sense of warmth and familiarity to any space, creating a cozy atmosphere that feels both nostalgic and comforting.

Why we chose this: Mona's magic only works on bread, her familiar is a sourdough starter, and her most impressive trick is making gingerbread men dance. Brown Sugar Cinnamon is the candle for her world, warm and golden and alive with the smell of something freshly baked, the kind of scent that makes you feel safe even when things are going very wrong. Light this candle before you follow Mona through her aunt's bakery and out into a city that needs her more than it knows, and let the sweetness of brown sugar and butter remind you that the smallest magic is sometimes the most powerful.

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