As the days grow shorter and the wind blows colder, it’s the perfect time to curl up with some cozy fantasy. The following titles are chock full of good-hearted witches, animal friendships, chosen families, and tea so good it might just be magical.
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A powerful mage and a former Queen’s guard try to leave their old lives behind and open the shop of their dreams: a bookstore that serves tea.
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A feisty witch and a handsome mage must put their heated business rivalry aside to save their small town from supernatural forces.
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Twenty-one-year-old Marigold Claude has always preferred the company of the spirits of the meadow to any of the suitors who’ve tried to woe her. So, when her grandmother whisks her away to her cottage on the tiny Isle of Innisfree with an offer to train her as the next Honey Witch, she accepts immediately. But her newfound magic and independence comes with a price: no one can fall in love with the Honey Witch. When Lottie Burke, a notoriously grumpy skeptic who doesn’t believe in magic, shows up on her doorstep, Marigold can’t resist the challenge to prove to her that magic is real. But soon, Marigold begins to care for Lottie in ways she never expected. And, when darker magic awakens and threatens to destroy her home, she must fight for much more than her new home–at the risk of losing her magic and her heart.
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Dragons are common in the backwater kingdom of Bellemontagne, coming in sizes from mouse-like vermin all the way up to castle-smashing monsters. Gaius Aurelius Constantine Heliogabalus Thrax (who would much rather people call him Robert) has recently inherited his deceased dad’s job as a dragon catcher/exterminator, a career he detests with all his heart in part because he likes dragons, feeling a kinship with them, but mainly because his dream has always been the impossible one of transcending his humble origin to someday become a prince’s valet. Needless to say, fate has something rather different in mind…
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A fortune teller finds an unexpected family on her journeys in this heartwarming and charming fantasy debut. Tao, an immigrant fortune teller, lives in a wagon and roams the dusty outskirts of the kingdom of Eshtera. Fleeing a troubled past, she travels between villages telling only small fortunes: whether it will hail next Thursday; what boy will kiss which barmaid; when the cow will calve. Big fortunes come with big consequences…which she wants to avoid at all costs. Life on the road can be lonely but, to Tao’s surprise, companionship comes unexpectedly. She encounters Mash and Silt, an ex-mercenary and semi-reformed thief; the oddball pair endear themselves to Tao and enlist her in the search for Mash’s lost daughter. Next the trio finds Kina, a brilliant baker, with a knead for adventure. And, finally, Fidelitus rounds out their party, a cat smart enough to mark the travelers as ready suppliers of fish. As they journey together across Eshtera, confronting small-minded villagers and philosophizing trolls alike, Tao’s unlikely new friends break down her walls and unravel her secrets. Ultimately, Tao must decide what’s more important: her hard-won freedom, or reuniting a family not her own.
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When I was a little girl, my Ma used to read me stories every night. Some were epic adventures with high stakes and exciting twists, while others were of princesses trapped in towers guarded by fierce dragons. The pitiful princess would be stuck inside all day pining for her prince charming to come and rescue her. I always hated those stories. I couldn’t imagine why the lazy thing didn’t just get up and leave. Ironic since I was now stuck in that same situation. Turns out, when a dragon holds you hostage, he doesn’t just let you get up and leave. Who knew? When I thought I saw hope on the horizon, that hope was smashed to bits by – you guessed it – another damn dragon.
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Bowen Penhallow studies magic alone on a mountaintop in Wales. When his ghostly friend asks him to attend a Yuletide, he agrees. There he’s transported to 1958 with Tamsyn Bligh, a seller of magical items, and as they work to get back to the present, they must also face the fact that somewhere between the mistletoe and the bonfire, they might be falling in love.
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Nineteen-year-old Merowdis Scot is an unusual girl. She can talk to animals and trees–and she is only ever happy when she is walking in the woods. One snowy afternoon, out with her dogs and Apple the pig, Merowdis encounters a blackbird and a fox. As darkness falls, a strange figure enters in their midst–and the path of her life is changed forever.