West of Wicked

<p><b>DELUXE FIRST PRINT EDITION - featuring gorgeous sprayed edges, coloured map endpapers, and a foil board design.</b></p><h2><b>A dark, sexy, and twisted reimagining of The Wizard of Oz from USA Today bestselling author Nikki St. Crowe </b></h2><p><b>No one is safe on the yellow brick road.</b><br><br>Dorothy Gale doesn’t know where she came from. At the age of five, she was dropped on Em and Henry’s doorstep while a terrible storm rolled across the Kansas prairie. Now as an adult, Dorothy has made the most of her life on the farm. But when a cyclone tears through the night, ripping her, her dog, and the farmhouse away, Dorothy wakes to find herself far from home in the strange, cursed land of Oz.<br><br>Desperate to find her way back, Dorothy takes the advice of the Witch of the North and sets off on the yellow brick road to find a wizard . . . with a warning to avoid forest monsters, heartless mercenaries, and wicked witches. It isn’t long before Dorothy encounters the dark side of Oz, stumbling on a man beaten and bloody, tied to a pole in a cornfield. Not unlike the scarecrows on the Kansas farm.<br><br>With no memories, the mysterious stranger joins Dorothy. Rook is ridiculously handsome, endlessly charming, and somehow understands Dorothy in a way no one ever has. But when they cross paths with the infamous Tinman and his axe, Rook proves he may be hiding his own secrets.<br><br>Nothing and no one is what they seem in the cursed land of Oz . . . maybe even Dorothy herself.<br><br><u><b>Tropes:</b></u><br><br>Wizard of Oz retelling<br>Forbidden Love<br>Rambunctious Dog<br>Journey of self discovery<br>Hidden identity<br>Witchy<br><br><u><b>Spice:</b></u><br><br>2/5<br></p>