Set in the waning days of the Dutch Golden Age, this enchanting, lush reimagining of The Little Mermaid is perfect for fans of Jesse Burton’s The...

Hester Fox
Hester Fox

Hester Fox is a full-time writer and mother, with a background in museum work and historical archaeology. She is the author of such novels as The Witch of Willow Hall, A Lullaby for Witches, and The Last Heir to Blackwood Library. A lifelong New Englander, she lives in a small mill town in Massachusetts. 

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A Magic Deep and Drowning

Set in the waning days of the Dutch Golden Age, this enchanting, lush reimagining of The Little Mermaid is perfect for fans of Jesse Burton’s The Miniaturist and Leigh Bardugo’s The Familiar.



The Dutch Republic, 1650. One fine spring day in Friesland, twenty-year-old Clara van Wieren is faced with an ill omen: a whale, beached and rotting in...

The Book of Thorns

In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars and the rise of the floriography craze in Europe, two sisters separated at birth are bound together by a secret language of flowers passed down to them by the mother they never knew. When Cornelia leaves her cruel uncle’s home to join Napoleon’s army as a traveling naturalist, her ability to heal any wound and...

The Last Heir to Blackwood Library

“Weaves a spell of darkness that’s mysterious and magical, and binds it with a knot of deathless love.” New York Times bestselling author Susanna Kearsley on A Lullaby for Witches

In postWorld War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets

With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy...

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Just in time for the season of witches and magic, we hope you'll spend the evening with us and authors Morgan Ryan and Hester Fox who will be discussing their newest novels!

A Resitance of Witches is Morgan Ryan's historical fantasy debut. As World War II rages around her, a witch abandoned by her coven must journey to find a book of unspeakable power before it lands in Nazi hands.

Hester Fox's A Magic Deep and Drowning is set in the waning days of the Dutch Golden Age. It's an enchanting,...

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