Book Release Fantasy fiction romance Romantic Comedy

New Release – The Hocus Pocus Handbook by Ann Aguirre

StoreyBook Reviews 

 

Synopsis

From New York Times bestselling author Ann Aguirre comes a cozy fae fantasy romance featuring a sunshine-shadow slow burn, a grumpy-butsecretly-tender love interest, an unforgettable found family, and a world lush with wildcraft magic.

Thea Winter didn’t choose to be a changeling ― stolen from the mortal world as a baby, raised in the wildlands by a hobgoblin named Mudge who taught her everything worth knowing. How to read the weather in a crow’s wing. How to barter with brownies. How to stay alive in a world of capricious fae courts. What Mudge couldn’t teach her was how to stay out of trouble. Which is why she’s entangled in a objectionable marriage of convenience.

Or would be, but her spouse bolted. Now she has to hunt down Devan J. Fenelon, but she’s been saddled with a taciturn, humorless hunter known as Winter’s Hound. He answers only to his cousin, and she’s not looking forward to this quest at all.

Kerboros has survived the Winter Court by being exactly what they made him: relentless, invisible, and careful never to want anything at all. His life is an endless series of ceaseless commands from his reprehensible cousin, Lord Liskaal. Since his father’s failed rebellion, Kerboros has been permitted to survive only as an example to others, an object lesson as to how far one may fall. But traveling with Thea―wild, warm, impossible Thea―is a glorious torment for an enforcer who has never known freedom.

She is sunshine. He is shadow.

Their love is forbidden, but when irresistible force sweeps up an immovable object, the resulting reaction might be magical…

Amazon * B&N * Bookshop

 

Praise

“Bestseller Aguirre (The Only Purple House in Town) delivers a heartfelt ode to found family in this delightfully twisty, trope-bending adventure… Loaded with fun misadventures and colorful characters, this fantasy romance fires on all cylinders.” ― Publishers Weekly

“Cozy, sweet, and rich in setting and detail, Aguirre’s latest offers readers comfort and fancy. Suggest to fans of Rebecca Thorne.” ― Library Journal

 

About the Author

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Ann Aguirre has been a clown, a clerk, a savior of stray kittens, and a voice actress, not necessarily in that order. She loves video games, Korean dramas, music, dogs and cats, and staring at the sea. Though she writes all kinds of genre fiction, she has a major soft spot for a happily ever after.

Website * Instagram * Facebook * BlueSky

Recommended Posts

excerpt Poetry

Excerpt – Of Backyard Chickens and Better Days by Jim Bates

  Synopsis Written throughout the course of one year, these poems reflect Jim’s search for his youngest son, who went missing in late 2025. The emotional challenge was something he’d never wish on anyone, but he wanted to try to capture what he was experiencing by writing about it. Poems entitled “Bereavement,” “Mountain Stream,” and […]

StoreyBook Reviews 
Book Release Horror LGBTQ+

New Release – What a Nightmare by Rebekah Faubion

  Synopsis They called her a nightmare, so she became one. Haven Powers has spent years trying to disappear. Once a loud, troublemaking girl who defied every expectation in her small town of Friendship, Texas, now she’s learned to hide her fire behind a quiet receptionist’s smile. It’s safer that way—for her, and for everyone […]

StoreyBook Reviews 
Book Release excerpt suspense Texas Thriller

New Release & Excerpt – Mother May I by Harry Hunsicker

  Synopsis She lost everything. Except the will to fight. When former CIA operative Meg Dalton learns a shocking clue suggests her long-missing daughter might still be alive, she’s forced into a desperate, high-stakes search for the truth. Fifteen years after little Ivy vanished without a trace at a Texas fair, Meg has built a […]

StoreyBook Reviews