Someone Else's Tuesday: Book One of the Copperton Series (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798197358448)

Tom Barrel has run the Copperton Arms for eleven years. He knows which regulars take their ale cold even in winter, which market traders are reliable, and exactly how many words it takes to make anyone comfortable. He is, by any measure, the most indispensable man in Copperton - and the least known.

Then a travelling scholar arrives on a Tuesday with a badly packed satchel, an inability to light a fire, and the unsettling habit of saying accurate things aloud without noticing he's done it.

Callum Fitch is running from powerful enemies who want the foundational document he was never supposed to find - one that names Copperton specifically, and suggests the village's unremarkable seventh-night customs have been maintaining something rather older and more significant than anyone realised. He needs somewhere safe. He did not expect somewhere warm.

Someone Else's Tuesday is a cozy fantasy about a man who has confused being indispensable with mattering, a scholar who can read six dead languages and cannot cook anything, and a village that shows up for people without making a speech about it afterward.

It is also about what happens when someone refuses to accept your workable arrangement with the world - not aggressively, not knowingly, but simply by being a person who needs you rather than your services.

The fire at the Copperton Arms burns warmer when the company is good. Tom has always attributed this to the draught from the east door.

He has always been wrong about that.