
The Faraway Inn
Random House Children's Books · Paperback · March 31, 2026
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A teen girl decides to spend her summer helping her eccentric great aunt manage her quaint Vermont inn—only to discover that the fixer-upper is hiding a magical secret—in this cozy and irresistible new young adult fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop.
- Themes
- magical secret, family relationships, coming of age
- Pacing
- Steady
- Genres
- YA Fantasy, YA Fantasy Romance, YA Romance
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A teen girl decides to spend her summer helping her eccentric great aunt manage her quaint Vermont inn—only to discover that the fixer-upper is hiding a magical secret—in this cozy and irresistible new young adult fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop. This stunning first edition of The Faraway Inn features gorgeous designed edges!
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“Frosted with whimsy and sprinkled with joy, The Faraway Inn is a testament to why Sarah Beth Durst is the queen of cozy fantasy!”—Tricia Levenseller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Darkness Within Us When sixteen-year-old Calisa arrives at her great-aunt’s B&B in rural Vermont for the summer, she’s shocked to find a rundown inn rather than the cozy bed-and-breakfast she was expecting. Grumpy and eccentric, Auntie Zee is determined to keep anyone from messing with her beloved inn . . . even though she clearly needs the help. To convince her great-aunt to keep her around, Calisa sets to work fixing up the inn, enlisting extra help from the groundskeeper’s (handsome) son. But the longer she stays, the surer she is that there’s something strange about the B&B—and its guests. Something almost . . . otherworldly. The inn is keeping a magical secret—but to protect the place she’s come to love, Calisa must unravel the truth before it’s too late.
Where it sits
| YA Fantasy Romance | 68% |
|---|---|
| YA Fantasy | 56% |
| YA Romance | 24% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Contemporary YA Fantasy
- YA Fantasy Romance
- Clean, Nonviolent Fiction
- Authors
- Sarah Beth Durst
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Published
- March 31, 2026
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- magical secret · family relationships · coming of age
- Reading lane
- Contemporary YA Fantasy