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Once upon a time… 

A plague sweeps across the emerald hills of Uí Néill, leaving a young midwife’s father with months to live. To save her people, Sorcha makes a deal with a dangerous Fae. She must travel across the sea, through merrow and kelpie lands, to find a forgotten…

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1 author picked Heart of the Fae as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I’ve always loved Beauty and the Beast retellings and this one blew all the others that I’ve read out of the water. From the first page I was hooked.

This was one of the few books I’ve devoured in a day. It had everything I wanted and more, a healer main character with backbone for days, a cursed beastly prince with all the wonderful moodiness, and sexual tension for days!

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