Thanks to everyone who let us know about this one! A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family—and a new love—changes the course of her life. She thinks no one will take it seriously. But someone does. An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. It breaks all of the rules, but Mika goes anyway, and is immediately tangled up in the lives and secrets of not only her three charges, but also an absent archaeologist, a retired actor, two long-suffering caretakers, and…Jamie.
An irritatingly appealing threat. As Mika begins to find her place at Nowhere House, the thought of belonging somewhere begins to feel like a real possibility. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. We also may use affiliate links in our posts, as well. Even the title Book Lovers refers to many subtle and prominent details of this book, and I gulped the entire novel in one day, disappearing into a few pages when I was supposed to be doing other things oops.
I love stories that are about people being seen and loved and appreciated exactly as they are, that in some part are about bending or destroying expectations. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart.
In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.
But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. This is book one in The Doves of New York series.
