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Hexed by Emily McIntire
Hexed by Emily McIntire
#Romantasy #AdultFantasy
He’s the prince of La Cosa Nostra. She’s the witch who steals his heart.
Venesa Andersen has never been good. She wasn’t good enough for her parents, and she isn’t good enough for the gangster uncle who took her in after they died. But she’s cunning.
Beautiful. Dutiful to her uncle’s demands. And she doesn’t have time for a moral compass, anyway.
When her runaway cousin returns to their coastal southern town, she brings a man with her, and Venesa soon realises he’s the only one who’s ever seen her for her.
There’s just one problem: she can never have him.
Enzo “Loverboy” Marino is a wealthy businessman by day and prince of the underworld by night.
Underboss to a notorious mafia syndicate, he answers to no one except his father: the strongest don in the northeast. When he’s tasked with marriage, Enzo doesn’t think twice.
Until he meets his fiancée’s cousin.
Venesa is everything he never knew he wanted, bewitching him with her sultry voice and supple curves. But Enzo learned long ago that for a man like him, life is better without the things you want.
When plans unravel and temptation sings its siren song, they’ll both have to choose what’s more important: duty to their families or a forbidden love that was never supposed to be.
Hexed joins the Never After series as a dark and sexy reimagining of a classic tale, twisting it into an enticing new shape for mature readers.
Info:
Paperback, 7 Nov 2024
Odd One Out by Nic Stone
Odd One Out by Nic Stone
Age 12-16.
Courtney 'Coop' Cooper: Dumped. Again.
And normally I wouldn't mind.
But right now, my best friend and source of solace, Jupiter Sanchez, is ignoring me to text some girl.
Rae Evelyn Chin: I assumed 'new girl' would be synonymous with 'pariah', but Jupiter and Courtney make me feel like I'm right where I belong.
I also want to kiss him. And her. Which is - perplexing.
Jupiter Charity-Sanchez: The only thing worse than losing the girl you love to a boy is losing her to your boy. That means losing him too.
I have to make a move.
One story. Three sides. No easy answers.
Info:
Paperback, 18 Oct 2018.
Age 8-11.
See that tall, skinny kid with the ball in his handsayin see ya later to his mate?
That’s me.
Nathan WilderNate. 10 years oldand a week away from the end of Year 5. Life can be tough in your last year of primary school.
Tests to take, preparing for the change to high school. Nate is ready for it all, knowing his best friend PS is at his side - they’ve been inseparable since Nursery. But when they are put in two different classes and PS finds a new friend in Turner, the school bully, Nate's world turns upside-down.
As he struggles to make sense of this and forge new friendships, he’s dealt another blow when his youngest brother, Dylan is rushed into hospital. His new teacher, Mr Joshua, sees a spark inside of Nate that’s lit by his love of reading and writing and shows him how to use this to process what’s going on. But with so much working against him, and anger rising inside him, will this be enough?
A powerful and lyrical story about finding your place in the world and the people that matter within it.
Info:
Paperback, 7 Sep 2023.
Queer as Folklore takes readers across centuries and continents which reveals the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates the queer history of different mythic and folkloric characters, both old and new.
Info:
Hardback, 22 Aug 2024
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