Emily Wilde´s Compendium of Lost Tales – Fawcett Heather (2025)

The third instalment in the enchanting light-academia series about Emily Wilde, a curmudgeonly scholar of folklore, and the faerie prince she loves, from Sunday Times bestselling author Heather Fawcett. Emily has spent her life studying faeries and documenting hundreds of Folk species in her Encyclopaedia of Faeries. Now she embarks on her most dangerous academic project yet: studying the inner workings of a faerie realm as its queen. Along with her former academic rival and now fiancé, the dashing and mercurial Wendell Bambleby, Emily is thrust into the deadly intrigues of Faerie as they seize the throne of Wendell’s long-lost kingdom, a beautiful nightmare filled with scholarly treasures. Although Emily has always been obsessed with faerie stories, she initially feels as ill-suited to Faerie as she once did to the mortal world. How can an unassuming scholar pass for a queen? There is little time to settle in, however: Wendell’s murderous stepmother has placed a deadly curse upon the land before vanishing without a trace. It will take all of Wendell’s magic and Emily’s knowledge of stories to unravel the mystery before they lose everything they hold dear. The Emily Wilde books are praised as charming, darkly gorgeous and enchanting academic fairy tales, filled with snow, magic, footnotes, field trips and a grumpy romance.