<p>I'm Maeve Crawford and I always had a plan: flee my podunk hometown go to MIT get into the space program be the first woman on Mars adopt a cat (not necessarily in this order).</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Then fairies killed my parents and shot the whole plan to hell.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Now I've inherited a real honest-to-goodness English castle - complete with turrets ramparts and a portal to the fae realm at the bottom of the garden. Oh and four gorgeous male tenants who I'm definitely not falling in love with.</p><p><br></p><p>Not at all.</p><p><br></p><p>It would be crazy to fall for four guys at once even though they're gorgeous amazing wonderful and kind.</p><p><br></p><p>But not as crazy as discovering I'm a witch. A week ago I didn't even believe magic existed and now I'm up to my ears in spells prophetic dreams and rogue fae.</p><p><br></p><p>I can't science my way out of this mess.</p><p><br></p><p>Forget NASA it's going to take all my smarts just to survive Briarwood Castle.</p><p><br></p><p><em>The Castle of Earth and Embers</em> is the first in a spicy fantasy romance by USA Today bestselling author Steffanie Holmes. This full-length book glitters with love heartache hope grief dark magic fairy trickery steamy scenes British slang meat pies second chances and the healing powers of a good cup of tea.</p>