Can’t Wait Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings, in which we take a look at upcoming releases we’re super excited about.
Today’s selection and book I’m excitedly awaiting is:
Elodie and the Dark Lord
by Ashley Poston
Adult Fiction – Fantasy – Romance
March 23, 2027
Goodreads
To save her brother, a magicless librarian must infiltrate a magical academy and trust a Dark Lord, in the first novel in a spellbinding new fantasy duology from the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Year Slip.
Thirty-eight-year-old Elodie Kess is content with her quiet life as a librarian in a seaside town, at the furthest reaches of the Kingdom. After all, a scholar of magic with no magical ability is quite useless. Even if she cannot cast spells herself, it brings her endless pride that her brother, Emmerick, not only has a rare talent for magic, but is an esteemed professor at the High Arcanum Conservatory.
But when Emmerick goes missing—along with his closely guarded research—Elodie is the only one who can rescue him.
The head Enchanter of the Conservatory and Elodie hatch a plan to glamour her as a first-year graduate student, so she can infiltrate the institution to find out what happened. Her most likely suspect? The Conservatory’s least favorite professor—a centuries-old Dark Lord, now defanged and de-magicked, sentenced to a lifetime cursed as a cat.
When her ability to repel magic accidentally dispels his curse at her touch—unveiling the disarmingly attractive man he once was—he becomes her best ally. Finding herself pulled into the Dark Lord’s orbit, he is surprisingly different than her studies suggest. He is brilliant with magic, and thoughtful in surprising ways. As Elodie and the Dark Lord work together, she begins to question everything she’s been taught about him, and soon guarding her heart seems impossible. But for every lie in the history books, there is a grain of truth, and the Dark Lord was cursed for a reason . . .
EVERYTHING about this book sounds amazing. Written by Ashley Poston, whom I already love for her whimsical contemporary romances with a dash of magic. A protagonist who’s 38 and a librarian. A Dark Lord as a love interest. A magic school and a curse and a cat… I’ll be counting down the days until this releases, that’s for sure!
Tell Me:
Will you be reading this book?
I LOVE the sound of this book! And the cover is wonderful as well!
It really does sound amazing, I already can’t wait to read it! 🙂
So excited for this one!
It does sound so good!
I haven’t had much luck with Poston, but this does sound intriguing!
I hope you’ll have better luck with this one if you decide to try it 🙂
I don’t think I’ve read any Ashley Poston, but I’ve featured a lot of her stuff on my BOGO romance tables. Hmmm…
Hope you’ll enjoy her books if you decide to try one 🙂
I hadn’t heard of it but does sound good.
I think so too! 🙂
Okay well I’ve never read from Ashley Poston but this sounds adorable and I need to add this to my tbr right now! 🙂
It really does sound adorable, doesn’t it? Hope we’ll both love it!