Francesca May

Wild and Wicked Things

On Crow Island, people whispered, real magic lurked just below the surface. But Annie Mason never expected her enigmatic new neighbour to be a witch.

When she witnesses a confrontation between her best friend Bea and the infamous Emmeline Delacroix at one of Emmeline's extravagantly illicit parties, Annie is drawn into a glittering, haunted world. A world where magic can buy what money cannot; a world where the consequence of a forbidden blood bargain might be death.

Get swept into a vision of 1920s England where magic is real but illegal, where young women have dark powers burning inside them, and where the boundaries of wickedness are tested with dire consequences.

Publisher: Hachette/Orbit
Publication Date: March 29, 2022
ISBN: 9780356517599

"Brimming with romance and gilded with danger, Wild and Wicked Things is a heady, lyrical gem of a book." —Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author

"[B]eautiful...May’s atmospheric prose conjures the world down to its last detail." ―Publishers Weekly

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Francesca May grew up in the middle of England where she spent her childhood devouring fantasy books and brewing potions in her back garden. She currently lives in Derby with her family, three giant dogs and two black cats. By day she works as a bookseller. By night she accidentally kills every house plant she touches and writes novels about gothic mansions, witchcraft, and queer love.

https://franwritesstuff.com

Tags: Adult, Fantasy, Gothic, Historical Fiction, LGBTQIA+, Magical Realism, Sapphic, Speculative Fiction/SFF