Jenelle Leanne Schmidt's 3 favorite reads in 2025

• 2024
• 2025

Hester Flanders went to the ball for the food. She didn’t expect a prince to follow her home.If there’s one rule Hester learned during her country upbringing, it’s never accept a gift: that’s how the Folk get you. Although she’s left her farm behind, she can’t leave her superstitions, even if no one else in the capital city seems to care. Hardworking but hungry, she’s looking for loopholes, and the king’s annual Commoners Ball seems like the perfect way to get a free meal that’s not technically a gift—and it would have been, too, except a pesky prince took a… show more.

Whenever fifteen-year-old Experience "Exe" Parsell makes a wish, it comes disastrously true—a power that once proved fatal. That's why Exe spends every waking moment suppressing her wildly uncontrollable magic to protect her lively yet loving adoptive family... from herself.

Desperate to be rid of her treacherous powers, Exe searches her quaint, quirky Arizona town for someone, anyone who can teach her to control her unnatural abilities. Then one restless night, Exe spies the spooky old man next door burying a body in her own backyard. Exe magically exhumes the corpse and unearths a "Wanted: Dead" poster—featuring her face.

Stunned to… show more.

The end of curses or the end of the Silver Guard?Giliosthay has barely survived Rusceon’s wrath, but Athdar and friends are now bound for Rusceon’s royal city and the ending of curses. But with the princesses turned to glass, Giliosthay vulnerable, Lakat in danger, and the friends split up without Thea’s Wind Rush to bring them together, it will take all the courage, cleverness, and love of the Silver Guard and Friends to defeat Prince Cerav once and for all.Wrought of Sapphire and Sea is the final main series book in the Of Magic Made series, a complete high fantasy… show more.