{"product_id":"9780008798109","title":"Elodie And The Dark Lord","description":"\u003ch2\u003ePre-order the first ever cosy academia romantasy from Ashley Poston, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Seven Year Slip\u003c\/em\u003e, now!\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTo save her brother, a magicless librarian must infiltrate a magic school and trust a Dark Lord, in this spellbinding and enchanting new tale from the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Seven Year Slip.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirty-eight-year-old Elodie Kess is content in her quiet life as her village’s librarian. Perhaps not happy \u003cstrong\u003e–\u003c\/strong\u003e but she has come to terms with that. After all, a scholar of magic with no magical talent of her own is quite useless in the kingdom of Abrea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy contrast, her younger brother is a rare talent in magic on the verge of a breakthrough. And when he disappears in the High Arcanum Conservatory \u003cstrong\u003e– \u003c\/strong\u003ealong with his research notes \u003cstrong\u003e– \u003c\/strong\u003eElodie believes she may be the only one who can rescue him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe and the headmaster come up with a plan: glamour Elodie as a first-year graduate student to infiltrate the institution. She doesn’t intend for her ineptitude for magic accidentally undoing the curse on the Conservatory’s least favorite professor \u003cstrong\u003e– \u003c\/strong\u003ea centuries-old Dark Lord, now defanged and de-magicked, cursed forever as a cat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Dark Lord is surprisingly charming and disarmingly handsome (when he’s not a cat), and seemingly her best ally. Elodie knows it would be dangerous to give him her heart. Especially when, rumor is, he used to eat them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eYour favourite authors LOVE Ashley Poston:\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘I LOVED this book’ \u003cstrong\u003eAli Hazelwood \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Ashley Poston has done it again…Whimsical, emotional, and tender' \u003cstrong\u003eB.K. Borison\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘An absolute and unexpected delight…the pages will probably sparkle (but with black glitter)’ \u003cstrong\u003eChristina Lauren\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Consider me Ashley Poston’s greatest admirer!’ \u003cstrong\u003eCarley Fortune\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Smart, quick, and absolutely bubbling over with love for the genre of romance itself’ \u003cstrong\u003eEmma Straub\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'No one tells stories like Ashley Poston' \u003cstrong\u003eLindsey Kelk\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ashley Poston","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47548264120469,"sku":"9780008798109","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008798109","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}