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Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Cozy fantasy
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Book 1 of the Emily Wilde series
Cambridge scholar Emily Wilde travels to the wintry village of Hrafnsvik to study its elusive faerie population for the encyclopaedia that will crown her academic career. She understands dangerous folklore far better than ordinary conversation, but her orderly research is disrupted by charming rival scholar Wendell Bambleby and increasingly perilous encounters with the Folk. Field notes gradually become an adventure involving local relationships, hidden identities, and bargains that cannot be treated as abstract scholarship. Witty, wintry, and enchantingly prickly, this journal-style fantasy is made for snow days and readers who like folklore, academic rivals, and romance that develops around the research.
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Fantasy violence and peril · Child endangerment · Body injury · Mild romantic content, including kissing
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