The Grumbleback Sanctuary (Thistlewick Hollow Book 1) by Verda Rowe
The road to Thistlewick Hollow was not built for dignity.
Wren Ashcombe discovered this fact somewhere around the third pothole, when the hired cart lurched hard enough to send her traveling case sliding off the bench and her carefully composed posture along with it. She caught the case before it hit the mud, one hand shooting out with the same swift, unthinking reflex she’d once used to catch falling instruments in a treatment room.