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 urban fantasy loosely inspired by <i>Beauty and the Beast </i>– </b><b>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’t right. Now she’s trapped in a library — with a monster. She can’t run. She can’t hide. And this man – this being, filled with terrible power and darkness — 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’s different. That she can do things a little better, a little faster. And there’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><br><br>^{<i>The Wren in the Holly Library</i> was a No. 1 <i>Sunday Times</i> bestseller w/e 13/07/2024}</p>