A royal secretary’s unremarkable life takes an unexpectedly magical turn when she is hired by an infamous Dark Wizard with more to him than meets the eye in this delightful cozy romantic fantasy by the author of Stay for a Spell.

Mummies, spiders, and poorly filed paperwork: Prepare to meet your worst nightmare.

Sensible, practical Honeyrose Brambling is the scourge of untidy desks and unsorted letters. Her life is careful, constrained, and predictable . . . and, after ten years as a royal secretary, unbearably boring.

So, when she accepts a job at the Dark Castle, she’s not sure what to expect: certainly nothing more exciting than filing paperwork, indexing archives, and staying out of the way of the many nightmarish creatures and unnerving oddities that call the castle home, like affectionate end tables, not-zombie unicorns, and at least one very large spider. 

Her new employer is the Dark Wizard Raddux, the most powerful sorcerer in the Shining Realm—and a notorious recluse. But the more time Honeyrose spends with Raddux, a man as compelling as he is eccentric, the more she discovers that everything she thought she knew—about magic in general and the Dark Wizard in particular—is wrong. 

Life at the Dark Castle is impractical, entirely unpredictable . . . and not at all boring. But there are more nightmarish things out there than even giant spiders. And when the worst happens, it falls to one very sensible ex–royal secretary to save the day. Because if she doesn’t, the Shining Realm could lose all its magic. Forever.