The Dark Wizard Falls in Love

A whimsical, cosy romantic fantasy about finding love in the most unexpected of places

Sensible, practical Honeyrose Brambling is the scourge of untidy desks and unsorted letters. Her life is careful, constrained, and predictable – that is, until accepts a job at the Dark Castle working for the most powerful sorcerer in the Shining Realm.

Expecting to spend her days filing paperwork and staying far away from the many nightmarish creatures roaming the halls, Honeyrose is intrigued to discover the notoriously reclusive Dark Wizard is stubborn, guarded – and brilliant.

In fact, the more time Honeyrose spends with him, the more she discovers that everything she thought she knew – about magic in general, and the Dark Wizard in particular … is wrong.

Reviews

Praise for Amy Coombe’s Stay for a Spell:

‘Hot chocolate for the heart … [i]f you're in the mood to be charmed, entertained, and joyously amused, then this is the perfect book for you!’ —India Holton, bestselling author of The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

‘Absolutely cozy and positively delightful, this book will warm your heart and soothe your soul … I loved it!’ —Sarah Beth Durst, bestselling author of The Spellshop

'A delightfully whimsical read … suggests that the secret to happiness really can be found in your local bookstore (with a devilishly handsome pirate to boot)' —Jenna Levine, bestselling author of My Roommate is a Vampire

'This book was a daydream, a bonbon, a joy. Forget dark academia, I want this – light, bookish, endlessly enchanting … Five sparkling stars!’ —Brigitte Knightly, author of The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy

'A delightfully cozy and romantic escape read for anyone who's ever fantasized about running away and hiding in books' —Stephanie Burgis, author of Wooing the Witch Queen

'A magical novel filled to the brim with warmth and joy' —Patrick Ness, award-winning author of The Knife of Never Letting Go

‘A grown-up novel that captures the magic, wit, and warmth of the princess stories I adored as a child’ —Sylvie Cathrall, author of A Letter to the Luminous Deep

'A charming and warm-hearted fairy tale for anyone who’s ever thought a bookshop feels like home' —M. Stevenson, author of Behooved

‘Utterly delightful, ridiculously charming and effortlessly compelling' —Claire North, author of The Sudden Appearance of Hope

'Amy Coombe has captured in book form that fuzzy feeling of sitting by a hearth with a cup of something hot, the comfortable weight of a cat on one's lap, and, of course, a dashingly good book at one’s fingertips' —Marianne Gordon, author of The Gilded Crown

'A delightfully heart-warming bookish fairy tale that enchanted me from start to finish' —Nadia El-Fassi, author of Best Hex Ever

About the author

Amy Coombe is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stay for a Spell. She grew up in California and lived all over the US before moving to the UK, where she puts her degrees in law and modern history to good use by doing something else entirely. She lives in London with her family and three cats.