Hearts

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>A creative fascinating debut for fans of whimsy and wonder. -AUTUMN KRAUSE author of <em>A Dress for the Wicked</em> and <em>Before the Devil Knows You're Here</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>SECRETS GROW IN SHADOWS</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Eighteen-year-old pencil artist Elizabeth Rhodes is on the cusp of a breakthrough art commission that could cement her future career: the debut of her drawings at </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>L'étoile dans les Ténèbres</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> the social calendar's biggest art auction hosted by renowned art collector and gracious philanthropist Madame Penelope Garcon.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Concealing her true identity as the mysterious artist Briar Rose-whose name and fame she inherited at the deathbed request of her beloved Aunt-Elizabeth accepts the terms her dapper and elderly benefactor Sterling Figgleston negotiates for the debut of Briar Rose's new series </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Hearts</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>When the mental illness she's been hiding threatens to expose her charade to the boy she's loved since childhood and with her estranged parents slated to make an appearance at </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>L'étoile dans les Ténèbres</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> will Elizabeth find the courage to break the curse and open her heart or will she lose her one chance at true love by revealing her heart's darkest secrets?</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Features of this story:</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>*Summer vibes</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>*Non-magical young adult fairytale reimagining with nods to the classics </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Alice in Wonderland</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> + </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Peter Pan</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> + </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Sleeping Beauty</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>*An exploration of mental health issues with an emphasis on healing</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>*Swoony dreamlike clean romance with only kissing</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>*Standalone novel within the Heartbooks series of loosely unconnected stories which can be read in any order. Read if you like books filled with old family secrets a charming European-inspired setting and swoon in every scene.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Do you love swoony heroes and complicated heroines? Do your favourite tropes include true love's kiss generational curses and fairy godmothers? Do you want clean but swoony romance with a touch of the fantastical? Then this book is for you!</strong></p>