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Biographical Note: " Stay for a Spell is the book of my dreams: a grown-up novel that captures the magic, wit, and warmth of the princess stories I adored as a child. (This is, for the record, the greatest compliment I can give to a work of fiction.)" Sylvie Cathrall, author of A Letter to the Luminous Deep " Stay for a Spell is one of the most charming, feel-good fantasies I've enjoyed in ages, I read the whole thing with a warm glow in my heart. A book-lover's book with romance, pirates in tight breeches, sharp patter, and a curse I'd honestly sign up for any day, Amy Coombe has captured in book form that fuzzy feeling of sitting by a hearth with a cup of something hot, the comfortable weight of a cat on one's lap, and, of course, a dashingly good book at one's fingertips."--Marianne Gordon, author of The Gilded Crown "A treat for book lovers. . . . A sweet, warm and sometimes funny escape."--BookPage "Coombe has created an utterly enchanting world and cozy story set against the backdrop of a lovely bookshop and adorable village. Readers will root for Tandy to discover her heart's desire and find the courage to seize it; as well as root for her banterful romance with a charming pirate. Stay for a Spell is ridiculously fun!"--A.T. Qureshi, USA Today bestselling author of The Baby Dragon Café "A delightfully heart-warming bookish fairy tale that enchanted me from start to finish."--Nadia El-Fassi, author of Love at First Fright "Magical, warm, and overflowing with heart, this is a story you'll never want to leave"--Lili Hayward, author of A Midwinter's Tale "Witty, enchantingly romantic, and brimming with magical mayhem - this one will have you grinning from the first page to the last!"--Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone, New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors "Fresh, innocent, deliciously funny, with a sprinkling of sapphic snogs, this is an enchanting, and enchanted, treat."-- The Daily Mail "Look, if you'd said that cozy could be empowering, whimsy could be sexy and curses could be liberating, I think it would have been fair to laugh in your face. But Stay for a Spell serves up a three course meal of cozy, whimsy and sexy and then turns round and asks if you'd like a dash of hilarious thrown in for good measure too, and wouldn't you know it, this turns out to be the most delicious literary meal you've had all year. I think it is fair to say that I have a heart like an icicle, and yet by the end even my frozen and embittered soul was getting all wibbly around the edges. This is a book that knows exactly what it's doing, and you know exactly what it's doing, and as a result it is the warmest hug and nicest possible time you're going to have wrapped up in its utterly delightful, ridiculously charming and effortlessly compelling pages."--Claire North, author of Ithaca and The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Publisher Marketing: A cursed princess must discover what her heart truly longs for in this charmingly cozy romantic fantasy for everyone who's ever lost - or found - themselves in a bookshop. Princess Tanadelle of the Widdenmar is disillusioned with life as a princess. She longs for real conversation, the chance to build a life of her own making, and uninterrupted reading time. During a routine royal visit to the town of Little Pepperidge, Tandy's dream comes true when she finds herself cursed to remain in a run-down bookshop until she unlocks her heart's desire. Certain that someone will figure out how to break the curse eventually, and delighted by the prospect of an entire bookstore of her own, Tandy settles into life among the stacks. She finds it easy to exchange balls and endless state dinners for teetering piles of books and an irritatingly handsome pirate who seems bent on stealing her stock. She even starts to believe she's stumbled into her very own happily ever after. There's just one, minor problem: as Tandy's royal duties go unfulfilled, her frantic parents start sending princes to woo her, each one of them certain their kiss will break the curse. After all, what more could a princess want but a prince? Review Citations:
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Stay for a Spell
$36.00