by Hazel Beck
Part of Witchlore
First published 2023
Rebekah Wilde was eighteen when the Joywood Coven took her magic and threw her out of St. Cyprian. Ten years away felt like survival. Coming back feels like a trap. She is home to face the Joywood, the coven that controls not just her town but the entire magical world, and they have already decided she and her friends are a threat to witchkind. The death sentence is real and the clock is moving. Rebekah's only path forward runs through Nicholas Frost, an immortal who once tutored her in secret and who she once loved in secret. He is cold, remote, and gives nothing away. She cannot tell whether he cares about her, about witchkind, or about anything at all. But he is the only person alive who knows how to stop the Joywood. Rebekah has to convince a man who feels nothing to help her fight a coven that wants her dead, all while her returning power suggests she may not be the threat the Joywood fear. She might be the answer.
Genres: fantasy, paranormal-fiction, adult, dark-fantasy, fantasy-romance, romantic-suspense
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotional, high-stakes, intense, suspenseful
Tropes: chosen-one, enemies-to-lovers, found-family, secret-romance, slow-burn-romance
Setting: St. Cyprian, Joywood Coven
384 pages · Paperback · Graydon House
Content warnings: death, violence