Book boyfriends may do it better, but they're more trouble than they're worth.

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After being fired from my dream fashion job, I return home to my village under a cloud of failure and take a job at the quaint Nevermore Bookshop. I'm hoping for an easy few months while I get my life together.

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But this is no ordinary bookshop.

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A mysterious curse on Nevermore brings infamous fictional villains from classic literature to life in the real world.

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My "easy" job involves rescuing customers from a 6foot4, grumpy, tattooed Heathcliff, drinking tea and evading the authorities with sophisticated villain Moriarty, and making art with Edgar Allen Poe’s shy, cheeky, raven shifter, Quoth.

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As if that isn’t crazy enough, my ex-best friend shows up dead with a knife in her back, and I’m the chief suspect. I’m going to have to Agatha Christie this shiz if I want to clear my name.

Oh, and those three fictional villains?

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They like to share…

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The Nevermore Bookshop Mysteries are what you get when all your book boyfriends come to life. Join a brooding antihero, a master criminal, a cheeky raven, and a heroine with a big heart (and an even bigger book collection) in this spicy cozy fantasy series by USA Today bestselling author Steffanie Holmes.

• Love interests are famous villains from classic literature

• Magical bookshop

• Disabled rep from a blind author

• Grumpy/sunshine, they fall first

• Raven shifter

• Mysteries to solve

• Morally grey book boyfriends

• Kooky, spooky humor

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About Steffanie

Steff is a USA Today bestselling author of dark, gothic, and sinful romance novels. Born in New Zealand and raised on a steady diet of metal and out-of-print archaeology books, she is now a novelist, hiker, mead-brewer, cat-wrangler, and professional iron maiden.

 

Oh yeah... and she is legally blind.

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Steff and her Cantankerous Drummer Husband (CDH for short) and live in an off-grid home they designed and built themselves on 4 acres of paradise overlooking the rugged Kaipara coastline, with their four cats, a menagerie of barnyard animals, and medieval sword collection.