Allison Saft

A gorgeously gothic, deeply romantic YA debut fantasy about two enemies trapped inside a crumbling mansion, with no escape from the monsters within. Honor your oath, destroy your country. Wren Southerland is the most talented healer in the Queen’s Guard, but her reckless actions have repeatedly put her on thin ice with her superiors. So when a letter arrives from a reclusive lord, asking Wren to come to his estate to cure his servant from a mysterious disease, she seizes the chance to prove herself. When she arrives at Colwick Hall, Wren realizes that nothing is what it seems. Particularly when she discovers her patient is actually Hal Cavendish, the sworn enemy of her kingdom. As the snowy mountains make it impossible to leave the estate, Wren and Hal grow closer as they uncover a sinister plot that could destroy everything they hold dear. But choosing love could doom both their kingdoms. Allison Saft’s Down Comes the Night is a snow-drenched, gothic, romantic fantasy that keeps you racing through the pages long into the night.

Down Comes the Night

Allison Saft's A Far Wilder Magic is a romantic YA fantasy perfect for fans of Erin A. Craig and Margaret Rogerson, about two people who find themselves competing for glory--and each other's hearts--in a magical fox hunt...

A Far Wilder Magic

Chloe Gong

Erin A. Craig

Hannah Whitten

Tori Bovalino

Erica Waters

Courtney Gould

Olivia Chadha

Alex Brown

Shakira Moise

These are the stories that haunt us

A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath of the third fire looming. A rural, isolated bridge with a terrifying monster waiting for the completion of its summoning ritual. A lake that allows the drowned to return, though they have been changed by the claws of death. These are the shadowed, liminal spaces where the curses and monsters lurk, refusing to be forgotten.

Hauntings, and a variety of horrifying secrets, lurk in the places we once called home. Written by New York Times bestselling, and other critically acclaimed, authors these stories shed a harsh light on the scariest tales we grew up with.

An Anthology of Folk Horror

The Gathering Dark

Niamh Ó Conchobhair has never let herself long for more. The magic in her blood that lets her stitch emotions and memories into fabric is the same magic that will eventually kill her. Determined to spend the little time she has left guaranteeing a better life for her family, Niamh jumps at the chance to design the wardrobe for a royal wedding in the neighboring kingdom of Avaland. . . 

But Avaland is far from the fairytale that she imagined. While young nobles attend candlelit balls and elegant garden parties, unrest brews amid the working class. The groom himself, Kit Carmine, is prickly, abrasive, and begrudgingly being dragged to the altar as a political pawn. But when Niamh and Kit grow closer, an unlikely friendship blossoms into something more—until an anonymous columnist starts buzzing about their chemistry, promising to leave them alone only if Niamh helps to uncover the royal family’s secrets. The rot at the heart of Avaland runs deep, but exposing it could risk a future she never let herself dream of, and a love she never thought possible. . . . 

Transporting readers to a Regency England-inspired fantasy world, A Fragile Enchantment is a sweeping romance threaded with intrigue, unforgettable characters, and a love story for the ages.

A Fragile Enchantment

A sharp-tongued folklorist must pair up with her academic rival to solve their mentor's murder in this lush and enthralling sapphic fantasy romance from the New York Times bestselling author of A Far Wilder Magic. Lorelei Kaskel, a folklorist with a quick temper and an even quicker wit, is on an expedition with six eccentric nobles in search of a fabled spring. The magical spring promises untold power, which the king wants to harness to secure his reign of the embattled country of Brunnestaad. Lorelei is determined to use this opportunity to prove herself and make her wildest, most impossible dream come true: to become a naturalist, able to travel freely to lands she’s only ever read about. The expedition gets off to a harrowing start when its leader—Lorelei’s beloved mentor—is murdered in her quarters aboard their ship. The suspects are her five remaining expedition mates, each with their own motive. The only person Lorelei knows must be innocent is her longtime academic rival, the insufferably gallant and maddeningly beautiful Sylvia von Wolff. Now in charge of the expedition, Lorelei must find the spring before the murderer strikes again—and a coup begins in earnest. But there are other dangers lurking in the dark: forests that rearrange themselves at night, rivers with slumbering dragons waiting beneath the water, and shapeshifting beasts out for blood. As Lorelei and Sylvia grudgingly work together to uncover the truth—and resist their growing feelings for one another—they discover that their professor had secrets of her own. Secrets that make Lorelei question whether justice is worth pursuing, or if this kingdom is worth saving at all.

A Dark and Drowning Tide

It’s been centuries since a warm-season fairy in Pixie Hollow has crossed into the Winter Woods, and while most fear the legends of monsters lurking in the frozen lands, Clarion, can’t help being intrigued by Winter’s stoic beauty. But under the watchful eyes of the current monarch and the court's seasonal ministers, Clarion has little time to dwell on daydreams while the days to her coronation dwindle away. 

That is, until reports of a monster crossing from Winter into Spring make their way to the palace. Clarion sees defeating this threat as an opportunity to prove that she is worthy of her new role. But instead of finding a monster at the edge of Winter, she finds Milori, a young guardian of the Winter Woods. Together, they form an unlikely bond as they race to save their lands.   

But as their alliance warms to something more, they will discover there is a reason a warm-season fairy and a winter fairy must not be together. And the cost could be just as deadly as the monsters that prowl the Winter Woods.

Disney

Wings Of Starlight

Lorelei Kaskel, uma folclorista de temperamento explosivo e inteligência aguçada, está em uma expedição em busca do local que guarda uma magia lendária. A fonte mágica promete um poder incalculável, e o rei quer utilizá-lo para garantir seu domínio sobre o reino de Brunnestaad. Lorelei está determinada a usar essa oportunidade para realizar seu sonho mais louco e impossível: tornar-se uma grande naturalista. Porém, as coisas começam a dar errado quando sua líder e mentora, Ziegler, é assassinada em seus aposentos a bordo do navio, e os suspeitos são os cinco companheiros de expedição restantes. A única pessoa que parece ser inocente é sua rival acadêmica de longa data, a insuportavelmente bela e também pupila de Ziegler, Sylvia von Wolff. Agora a frente da expedição, Lorelei precisará unir forças com Sylvia, mesmo que a contragosto, para descobrir a verdade e encontrar a fonte de magia antes que o assassino ataque novamente. Mas à medida que a investigação avança e o navio adentra lugares obscuros com criaturas fantásticas e mortais, elas precisarão lutar pelos seus ideais e pela própria sobrevivência ― além de resistir aos sentimentos crescentes que nutrem uma pela outra.

Uma Correnteza Sufocante

In this romantic fantasy of manners from New York Times bestselling author Allison Saft, a magical dressmaker commissioned for a royal wedding finds herself embroiled in scandal when a gossip columnist draws attention to her undeniable chemistry with the groom. Niamh ó Conchobhair has never let herself long for more. The magic in her blood that lets her stitch emotions and memories into every dress she makes is the same one that will kill her-sooner rather than later -and she's determined to spend the little time she has left guaranteeing a better life for her family. When she's commissioned to design the wardrobe for a nearby kingdom's royal wedding, she knows this is her one chance to make something of herself. Niamh arrives in Avaland, where young nobles are making their debuts into society during the candlelit balls and elegant garden parties that fill the social Season. The only damper on the festivities is the groom himself: Kit Carmine, prickly, abrasive, and begrudgingly being dragged to the altar as a desperate political act.
Beneath Avaland's glittery façade, unrest is brewing, and an anonymous gossip columnist has been spreading rumors about corruption within the royal family. As Niamh grows closer to Kit, an unlikely friendship begins to blossom into something more... until the columnist starts buzzing about her chemistry with the prince, promising to leave her alone only if she helps uncover the royal family's secrets. Niamh discovers that the rot at the heart of Avaland goes far deeper than she bargained for-but exposing it could risk a future she never let herself dream of, and a love she never thought possible. Transporting readers to a Regency England-inspired fantasy world, A Fragile Enchantment is a sweeping romance threaded with intrigue, unforgettable characters, and a love story for the ages.

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A Fragile Enchantment 

„Profund romantică și absolut magică.“ - Kirkus Reviews Când Margaret Welty o descoperă pe legendara hala, ultima creatură mitică în viață, știe că va urma curând Vânătoarea Semilunii. Oricine este capabil să omoare hala va câștiga faimă și bogății și va descifra un secret magic străvechi. Margaret este cea mai bună trăgătoare de elită din oraș, însă la vânătoare pot participa doar echipe de doi, iar ea are nevoie de un alchimist. Weston Winters nu este alchimist — nu încă. Nu a rezistat niciuneia dintre perioadele de ucenicie pe care le-a încercat, iar ultima lui șansă depinde de decizia Maestrei Welty de a-l accepta. Dar când Wes ajunge la conacul Welty, o găsește doar pe Margaret. Cu mari rezerve, fata îi permite să rămână, cu o condiție: să participe la vânătoare împreună cu ea. Deși formează o echipă cam șubredă, în curând cei doi sunt atrași unul de celălalt. Pe măsură ce vânătoarea se apropie și tensiunile cresc, Margaret și Wes descoperă magia neagră care i-ar putea ajuta să câștige competiția — dacă reușesc să supraviețuiască. O magie de neîmblânzit este o poveste de dragoste dureros de tandră, desfășurată în condițiile unei vânători ucigașe, în atmosfera unei lumi fantastice care vă va cuceri. „Povestea de dragoste care se înfiripă între Wes și Margaret este subtilă și convingătoare, iar proza lui Saft — vie și plină de umor. Fanii romanului Regatul Umbrelor (Trilogia Grisha) al lui Leigh Bardugo vor savura probabil acest romantism sincer și evocator.“ – Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books „O lectură absolut entuziasmantă, care se desfășoară într-o lume a conacelor în ruină și a pădurilor străvechi. Allison Saft creează o poveste de dragoste complexă care va descătușa personajele, dar și imaginația dumneavoastră.“ – Chloe Gong, autoarea bestsellerului aceste patimi zbuciumate „O magie de neîmblânzit vă va umple sufletul cu imagini înfățișând păduri neguroase, conace victoriene în ruină și criptide argintii fosfores¬cente… Există în acest roman câte ceva pentru fiecare, fiind o lectură obligatorie pentru fanii literaturii gotice, literaturii fantasy naturale și YA fantasy deopotrivă.“ – BookTrib Allison Saft este autoare de bestsellere fantasy încă de la prima sa carte, Down Comes the Night. După ce și-a luat masteratul în literatură engleză la Tulane University, s-a mutat de pe Coasta Golfului pe Coasta de Vest, unde își petrece timpul făcând drumeții în pădurile de sequoia și practicând dansul acrobatic aerian. De aceeași autoare, în 2024 vor apărea A Fragile Enchantment și A Dark and Drowning Tide.

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