Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde #3)
Heather Fawcett
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Behind closed doors [?]
· 128 ratings · 368 pages · Published: 11 Feb 2025
Emily Wilde has spent her life studying faeries. A renowned dryadologist, she has documented hundreds of species of Folk in her Encyclopaedia of Faeries. Now she is about to embark on her most dangerous academic project studying the inner workings of a faerie realm—as its queen.
Along with her former academic rival—now fiancé—the dashing and mercurial Wendell Bambleby, Emily is immediately thrust into the deadly intrigues of Faerie as the two of them seize the throne of Wendell’s long-lost kingdom, which Emily finds a beautiful nightmare filled with scholarly treasures.
Emily has been obsessed with faerie stories her entire life, but at first she feels as ill-suited to Faerie as she did to the mortal How can an unassuming scholar such as herself pass for a queen? Yet there is little time to settle in, for 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.
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- fantasy 15
- fae 15
- magic 14
- m-f romance 14
- grumpy & sunshine 14
- historical 13
- competent heroine 12
- political/court intrigue 11
- non-human hero 11
- royal hero 11
- grumpy/ice queen 9
- sunny/happy hero 9
- independent heroine 8
- take-charge heroine 8
- found family 7
- mystery 7
- neurodivergent mc 6
- vengeance 5
- teacher/coach heroine 5
- class difference 5
- suspense 5
- 20th century 5
- friends to lovers 4
- aristo/royal heroine 4
- rich hero 4
- himbo 3
- plain heroine 3
- angst 1
- in her 30s 1
- immortal hero 1
- late 20s mmc 1
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- content warnings
- death / grief 6
- suicide / ideation 4
- animal death 2
- geography
- ireland 7
- british isles 7
- europe 1
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- audiobook
- first person pov 10
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The 'Emily Wilde' series
4.27 · 722 ratings
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