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Scarlett and the Dark Woods


A Young Adult Fantasy Novel


Companion Book to the Autumn Fairy Tales Series


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Romantic Fantasy,
  • Shapeshifters,
  • Forest Setting,
  • Race Against Time,
  • Enemies to Lovers
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Forbidden attraction between a magical girl and a shapeshifting wolf
  • Quest stories where magic weakens the deeper you go
  • Tough choices between belonging and loyalty to family
Publisher Description

She is one of the protected elect. He is a shunned shapeshifter. Can Scarlett rescue her grandmother before her own heart is stolen?

When her grandmother is cast out as unworthy after facing Hamelin's annual Shunning, Scarlett knows she must brave the dangers of Darkwood Forest if she's to have any chance of saving her. Her perilous adventure becomes a race against time; she needs to find Gran before the previously shunned get to her first.

Scarlett's efforts come too late. As her magic dwindles the farther into the forest she ventures, she becomes hopelessly lost and is forced to accept help from Greyson, the shapeshifting wolf who is stalking her every footstep—and who Scarlett suspects of knowing Gran's location.

If she manages to save her grandmother, Scarlett will be faced with an impossible choice: join Gran and live her life as an outcast or return to the rest of the elect, safe but alone. As she struggles to find the right path forward, Scarlett realizes that more than her grandmother's future is at stake. Her heart is too.

Can Scarlett resist her inexplicable attraction to the shunned wolf she despises long enough to protect the woman who raised her?

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