The Wren in the Holly Library

<p><b>Set in an alternate day New York filled with monsters, <i>The Wren in the Holly Library </i>is a dark, spicy romantasy loosely inspired by <i>Beauty and the Beast </i>&mdash; perfect</b> <b>for fans of V.E. Schwab and Leigh Bardugo.</b><br><br><b>She stole from a monster . . . now she must pay the price</b><br><br>Street thief Kierse should have known something wasn&rsquo;t right. Now she&rsquo;s trapped in a library &mdash; with a monster. She can&rsquo;t run. She can&rsquo;t hide. And this man &ndash; this being, filled with terrible power and darkness &mdash; is well within his rights to kill her.<br><br>By trespassing, Kierse has broken the fragile peace treaty between monsters and humans. But instead of killing her, Graves does the unexpected: he offers her a job. A chance to find out who she really is.<br><br>Kierse has always known she&rsquo;s different. That she can do things a little better, a little faster. And there&rsquo;s that sense she has when danger is only a breath away. But if the old tales are true, there are worse things in the world than monsters.<br><br>Like a threat more ancient than legend. Like Graves. Or like Kierse herself . . .<br><br><b>From bestselling author K. A. Linde comes the start of an addictive dark romantasy series where monsters live among humandkind, and ancient secrets threaten to destroy everything . . .</b></p>