Deep Is the Fen
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Get lost in the newest fantasy from the author of A Hunger of Thorns, on a beguiling journey behind the closed doors of a sinister secret society. Featuring a steamy enemies-to-lovers romance and a fight for the witching world that will get your heart racing.
Merry doesn’t need a happily-ever-after. Her life in the charming, idyllic town of Candlecott is fine just as it is. Simple, happy, and with absolutely no magic. Magic only ever leads to trouble.
But Merry’s best friend, Teddy, is joining the Toadmen—a secret society who specialize in backward thinking and suspiciously supernatural traditions—and Merry is determined to stop him. Even if it means teaming up with the person she hates most: her academic archnemesis, Caraway Boswell, an ice-cold snob who hides his true face under a glamour.
An ancient Toad ritual is being held in the sinister Deeping Fen, and if Merry doesn’t rescue Teddy before it’s finished, she’ll lose him forever. But the Toadmen have been keeping dangerous secrets, and so has Caraway. The farther Merry travels into Deeping Fen’s foul waters, the more she wonders if she’s truly come to save her friend . . . or if she’s walking straight into a trap.
There’s nothing the Toadmen love more than a damsel in distress.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A teen girl joins forces with her nemesis to save her best friend from a sinister secret society in this captivating fantasy from Wilkinson (A Hunger of Thorns). Seventeen-year-old Merry Morgan has hated dark magic ever since a witch's curse killed her mother and imbued Merry with Witch Sight, the ability to see magical energy. Today, her most pressing concern is whether to leave for university to continue competing with academic rival Caraway or stay with her bestie Sol and crush Teddy in the pastoral town of Candlecott, where dark magic is banned. Merry soon learns that Teddy has joined the Toadmen, an exclusive gentlemen's society steeped in Candlecott tradition. Only Merry can see that the Toadmen are using dark magic to perform illegal rituals, and so she determines to save Teddy before his soul is corrupted. When Caraway offers his aid, the unlikely pair set off on a path that leads to the unearthing of ancient magic, surprise romance, and the unraveling of Merry's world. An exposition-heavy start gives way to an immersive world in which Wilkinson employs beguiling imagery to craft a thought-provoking love letter to fierce and tenderhearted friendship. Protagonists cue as racially diverse. Ages 14–up.
