Maddie Crow's life has officially gone sideways. First, her fiancé dumps her. Then there's the call from her grandmother. And now? She's inherited a bookshop in Stratford-upon-Avon that's not just crooked—it has opinions.Maddie comes from a long line of powerful curse breakers.She's also spent most of her adult life pretending that's someone else's problem... moreMaddie Crow's life has officially gone sideways. First, her fiancé dumps her. Then there's the call from her grandmother. And now? She's inherited a bookshop in Stratford-upon-Avon that's not just crooked—it has opinions.Maddie comes from a long line of powerful curse breakers.She's also spent most of her adult life pretending that's someone else's problem.Now she's the latest Crow curator of The Crooked Tome, where nothing stands straight, the books reorganize themselves when you're not looking, and the building has stronger opinions than her grandmother. Which is saying something, because Grandmother Evangeline just conscripted her into the family business.Things get even more complicated when she discovers her great aunt left behind one final a cursed actress whose talent is literally disappearing. Maddie has to figure out how to break the curse while navigating paranormal politics and a distractingly handsome detective who knows magic exists but is utterly convinced it's all smoke and mirrors.Magic has a way of finding you, even when you're running in the opposite direction.Start this series of spellbinding mysteries in Shakespeare's hometown, where the real curses happen offstage.Perfect for fans of cozy paranormal mysteries with British charm and just enough romance to warm the heart with supernatural intrigue, a determined curse-breaker and a sceptical detective who's beginning to question everything he thought he knew about the world. less
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