Show Notes
The author of the viral "Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries" series is back with a cozy cat shelter set in Montreal. It brings the same historic charm, with new bumbling characters set on the pursuit of magical knowledge. Will we keep reading Heather Fawcett's cozy fantasies?
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