Strange Familiara Dark Fantasy Romance

Librarian Cillian Harahel and Wizard Alise Phel have fled Convocation Academy in the dark of night and grip of winter, taking with them the hidden archives they liberated from hiding. The effort of magically holding onto the massive archives—everything to do with House Phel and the conspiracy against it—is draining Cillian nearly to death. Alise wants only to get him to the house of his birth, and hopefully save his life.

But the young lovers are soon separated by their warring families. While Cillian remains at House Harahel to begin the painstaking work of restoring the archives, Alise goes home to the only home she has left: House Phel. There, she finds her sister, Nic, giving birth. But the joyful event is soon shattered by the arrival of their father, Lord Elal.

Forced to make a choice between her niece’s wellbeing and her own, a broken-hearted Alise returns to House Elal with her father, agreeing to be molded into his creature.

Cut off from each other, Cillian and Alise struggle to find the answers they desperately need—and, perhaps, find one another again.

Also known as Reluctant Wizard Book 2.

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Fantasy Romance Dark Fantasy

Release date: March 31, 2025

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Jeffe Kennedy

Jeffe Kennedy is an award-winning, bestselling author who writes fantasy with romantic elements and contemporary romance. She serves on the Board of Directors for SFWA as a Director at Large. Her recent works include the high fantasy trilogy from Rebel Base books, The Chronicles of Dasnaria, in the same world as her award-winning fantasy series The Twelve Kingdoms and The Uncharted Realms. She is a hybrid author, and also self-publishes a romantic fantasy series, Sorcerous Moons. Her books have won the RT Reviewers' Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2015, been named Best Book of June 2014, and won RWA's prestigious RITA(R) Award in 2017. The The Uncharted Realms novella, The Dragons of Summer, is also a RITA finalist in 2019. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with two Maine coon cats, plentiful free-range lizards and a very handsome Doctor of Oriental Medicine.

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