DISCOVER THE MOST WHIMSICAL AND HEART-WARMING TALE YOU'LL READ THIS YEAR Emily Wilde is good at many things; she is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encyclopaedia of facrie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. Nor does she care to spend time with another new arrival: her insufferably dashing rival Wendell Bambleby. But as Emily gets closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones the most elusive of all faeries she also finds herself on the trail of another mystery: who is Wendell Bambleby, and what does he really want? To find the answer, she'll have to unlock the greatest mystery of all her own heart. 'Forget dark academia: give me instead this kind of winter-sunshined sharp-tongued and footnoted acaderma, full of field trips and grumpy romance' Freya Marske, author of A Marvellous Light 'Enchanting in every sense of the word' H. G. Parry, author of The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep 'The ideal book to curl up with on a chilly winter's evening. This book is an absolute delight' Megan Bannen, author of The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy 'A gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic' Sangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches