The Night Garden

Description

Author: Nicole Northwood
Published: March 21, 2024 — 372 pages
Genre(s): Fantasy, Romantasy, Romance

Tropes: Magic academy · Prophecy · Slow burn · Enemies-to-lovers vibes
Series: Fairytales of the Lochs #1
Other notes: Content warnings — spicy content, drug/alcohol use · Canadian author

Ellie Blue Callaghan is spirited, reckless, and utterly unwilling to trade the untamed life she loves for the rigid path her future holds. At nineteen, she’s expected to attend Blossom Preparatory Academy — to become a proper sorceress, an adult, and a wife to Colonel Gallagher. But Ellie’s heart belongs to the wind-swept countryside of Loch Gàrraidh, her volatile magic, and the intoxicating effects of the hallucinogenic drug Allure.

Max O’Carroll is a Bèist — cursed, feral by day, and human by night — who has failed out of Blossom and lives under an eternal enchantment. His only hope to break it lies in finding true love, though history suggests no one ever falls for someone like him.

When Ellie and Max meet at a twilight garden party, a connection sparks over wine and a moonlit swim. Their understanding of love, freedom, and control is challenged as they navigate magical dangers, personal desires, and the strictures of the academy. Getting tangled in Max’s curse could ruin everything for Ellie — but is the risk worth the wild, intoxicating freedom they might find together?

The Night Garden is a lush, intoxicating journey through magic, romance, and self-discovery — a story for anyone who’s ever dreamed of breaking the rules and falling in love on their own terms.