Sixteen-year-old Calisa shows up at her great-aunt’s Vermont bed-and-breakfast soggy, heartbroken, and immediately plunges chest-deep through a broken porch board. If you have read anything by Sarah Beth Durst before, that first chapter lands like a promise: things here are strange, things here are warm, and the strangeness is the point. The Faraway Inn by Sarah Beth Durst is the third entry in her Cozy Fantasies series, following The Spellshop and The Enchanted Greenhouse. Like those books, it offers domestic, emotionally grounded magic at close range. Unlike sweeping epic fantasy, the stakes here are intimate: a crumbling inn that needs saving, a great-aunt who bristles at help, and a girl who needs to work out who she is when she’s no longer defined by the boy who cheated on her. Where Vermont Meets the Very Uncanny The setup does exactly what it should. Calisa, eager for distance from her heartbreak, arrives at the Faraway Inn expecting hard work and pine trees. What she finds is a three-story architectural disaster being slowly consumed by vines, a …