The Faraway Inn by Sarah Beth Durst

Tracy’s Rating: 5 of 5 stars

Series: Standalone

Release Date: March 31, 2026

When her boyfriend Ethan breaks her heart right at the beginning of summer, Calisa’s moms decide that she needs time away to heal and move on, so she can focus on her upcoming senior year. They send her to stay with her great-aunt Zee who runs a B&B in Vermont. Things seem to go wrong right from the start, she is caught in the rain, falls through the porch and is basically told to leave by her Auntie Zee.

But Calisa needs this time away and the Faraway Inn is filled with secrets and the promise of the answers she is seeking. She charms her way into staying for the summer, and soon somewhere between baking, cleaning and making new friends, she begins to unlock the inn’s secrets and realizes her grumpy great-aunt needs help and she thinks she might be able to give it. But when Auntie Zee goes missing, she will have to find a way to save not only Auntie Zee, but the inn itself before it’s too late!

This was such a fun story! Calisa is suffering from her first heartbreak at the beginning of the story and feels like all her hopes for a perfect summer before starting her senior year in high school are ruined. She starts to believe that if she succeeds at restoring the Inn, she will find the happiness that she lost when Ethan broke her heart. Along the way she will learn so much! There will be a new love interest, mythical/magical beings, secrets, found family (figuratively and literally), magic, healing and happy beginnings! This was a great YA cozy fantasy, and I am happy to recommend it to anyone who enjoys a bit of magic!

*I am voluntarily leaving a review for an eARC that I requested and was provided to me by the publisher/author. All opinions in this review are my own. *