WELCOME TO
Goat Haven
Goats are chaos with hooves. Fortunately, the Munroes consider that part of the charm.
22 Harvest Lane · Agricultural District · Fictional Ashby Lake, Ontario
A Little Crooked. Completely Welcoming.
Goat Haven is Luna and Orion Munroe’s warm, chaotic hobby farm in the Agricultural District of fictional Ashby Lake, Ontario. Sixteen goats behave like deeply codependent drama queens, sheep gather beneath an old apple tree, and handmade soap, dyed yarn, goat cheese, herbs, bread, art supplies, music, food, and family noise overlap everywhere.
It is also Gillian Munroe’s childhood home: the place where her old art studio waits at the edge of the property and where wounded people tend to be absorbed—sometimes aggressively—into warmth, laughter, work, food, animals, and belonging.
Goat Haven at a Glance
Address: 22 Harvest Lane
District: Agricultural District
Owners and operators: Luna and Orion Munroe
Residents: Luna, Orion, and their daughter Gillian
Animals: Sixteen goats and a flock of sheep
What they make: Handmade soap, goat cheese, spun and dyed yarn, bread, herbal preparations, and other small-batch goods
First story appearance: Ink in the Water (work in progress)
Later continuity: Ashby Lake After Dark: Rosa
Meet the Munroes
Warm, intuitive, theatrical, fiercely protective—and likely to understand a relationship before the people involved do.
Cook, baker, cheesemaker, soap maker, farm worker, philosopher, and creator of “Cheese of the Day, Man.”
Artist, daughter of Luna and Orion, and the reason a paint-stiff apron and an old easel still wait in the studio.
Life at Goat Haven
The farmhouse is warm and eccentric, centred on a sunshine-yellow kitchen filled with garlic braids, drying herbs, mason jars, clay bowls, books, paintbrushes, mismatched dishes, and spontaneous hospitality.
Outside, paths wander between the goat barn, sheep pasture, slightly crooked greenhouse, herb garden, soap shed, Gillian’s studio, and backyard bonfire area. An old apple tree shades the sheep. A stone path laid by teenage Gillian still crosses the property. The fence leans a little. The goats monitor every arrival.
The farm produces handmade soaps—including Aries Awakening and Moonrise Sage—along with goat cheese, yarn, bread, herbal tea, and an assortment of fermented, pickled, baked, or otherwise enthusiastically homemade food.
Gillian’s Studio
At the edge of Goat Haven stands Gillian’s childhood art studio, preserved while she is away. Inside are her easel, scratched desk, old paint-stiff apron, and workbench, along with familiar traces of linseed oil, citrus incense, and ambition. It is one of the farm’s quietest spaces—and one of its most emotionally important.
Goat Haven in the Ashby Lake Stories
Goat Haven first appears in the unfinished Ink in the Water, which takes place before Ashby Lake After Dark: Rosa. It is Gillian’s childhood home and a place of safety, recovery, art, family, and new connection. Because the manuscript is still in progress, plot outcomes and final relationship milestones are not treated as settled here.
Rosa later establishes Goat Haven as part of Ashby Lake’s paranormal world, connecting Luna, Orion, Gillian, and the goats to the wider Ashby Lake After Dark cast.
Nearby in the Agricultural District
Goat Haven sits on Harvest Lane near Mr. Griggs Feed & Farm Supply at 18 Harvest Lane. Deeper into the agricultural landscape, Ward Wines occupies its vineyard and stone estate at 84 Winery Road. The Farmer’s Market is another natural connection for Ashby Lake’s local makers, though Goat Haven’s exact market schedule has not yet been established.
Goat Haven FAQ
Where is Goat Haven?
Goat Haven is located at 22 Harvest Lane in the Agricultural District of fictional Ashby Lake, Ontario.
Who owns Goat Haven?
Luna and Orion Munroe own and operate the family hobby farm. Their daughter Gillian grew up there and returns home in Ink in the Water.
How many goats live at Goat Haven?
Sixteen goats are established during Ink in the Water, including the highly theatrical Meryl and pregnant Starlight. The property also keeps sheep.
Is Goat Haven a real farm?
No. Goat Haven is a fictional location in Tasha Zima’s interconnected Ashby Lake romance and paranormal-romance world.
Come as strangers. Leave as kin. Possibly with goat hair.