Return to North Pointe Common Town — but not as you’ve known it before.

Entrées & Epiphanies is something different from the ten Tales from the Broken Claw that came before it: not one story, but many, each complete in itself, each centered on a single extraordinary establishment on the trade road where the road bends north around the vast, dark mirror of Lake Evendiam.

You know The Restaurant. You’ve watched patrons go in and wondered what happens inside. Now you’ll find out.

Llewel Magcaryn — Mountain Elf, immaculate in his black and white, possessed of eyes the color of high-altitude sky — serves what he calls a final meal. Not before death. Before transformation. Before the next chapter of a life that has outgrown the one it’s been living. Patrons sometimes spend what feels like weeks inside, though only an evening passes outside. Some depart through doors that weren’t there before. A rare few push back their chairs, thank Llewel with genuine courtesy, and walk back out into the life they already have.

In these pages, the doors of The Restaurant open wide.

A wandering soldier who has spent fifteen years running from a self he thought was lost. A would-be thief who spends three weeks inside and comes out with nothing stolen and everything changed. An elderly scholar who receives a forty-year proof not in her mind but in her body, course by course. A widow who brings her late husband’s recipe book and is served, instead, her own. And four old friends who have spent thirty years trading the Lake Evendiam circuit together, coming for one last meal that belongs to all of them at once.

Outside, as always, North Pointe watches. Sam behind the bar. Jen on her rounds. Minnie with her opinions. The Púca, deploying themselves wherever chaos needs them most. And Llewel himself — occasionally humbled, always precise — learning, slowly, the difference between service and interference.

Entrées & Epiphanies is a book about thresholds. About the meals that change us. About a small town that has become, over eleven books, a place where people arrive as one thing and leave as another — and where the leaving is, on the whole, cause for celebration.

Welcome back to North Pointe.

The table is ready.