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Homegrown Magic

Jamie Pacton author Rebecca Podos author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cornerstone

Publishing:13th Mar '25

£9.99

This title is due to be published on 13th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Homegrown Magic cover

A delightful queer cottagecore romantasy full of friends-to-lovers romance, found family, rival family drama, and cozy garden magic.

Yael Clauneck might be an indifferent warlock, but they are also the only scion of an obscenely wealthy banking family with its fingers in every pie in the realm. On the precipice of a predetermined life, a loveless political marriage, and eventually, children who’ll be raised exactly as they were, they flee during their own graduation party, in search of the chance to feel like life can still be a grand adventure.

Margot Greenwillow—talented plant witch, tea lover, and stressed greenhouse owner—has never felt further from adventure in her life. After her grandmother died and her parents lost the family fortune, she’s been on her own, desperately trying to keep what remains of the family business afloat. So when her childhood friend—and former crush—gallops back into her life, she’s shocked, to say the least. But when Yael confesses they’ve fled home with no possessions and no plan, Margot, lonely and in need of help, offers Yael a job in the greenhouses. Yael is delighted to accept.

They lay low for a while, harvesting strawberries for heartbreak jam, and flirting with Margot while they figure out what to do next. What Yael doesn't know is that Margot’s been forming a plan of her own - reforge alliances, entice investors, and take back everything that was stolen from her own family by the Clauneck Company.

But plans are notoriously unreliable things, unlikely to survive a swiftly-blooming mutual attraction, not to mention the machinations of a set of parents determined to get their heir back—no matter the cost.

Bewitchingly cozy and deliciously queer. * S.A. MacLean, author of The Phoenix Keeper *
Yael and Margot’s sizzling spice and adorable charm had me turning pages so fast. * Rebecca Thorne, author of Can’t Spell Treason without Tea *
Beautifully written, wildly original, and impossibly charming, Homegrown Magic is the gorgeous queer fantasy I didn't know I needed. * Lana Harper, New York Times bestselling author of Payback’s a Witch *
A lovely, queer romance that feels like drinking tea in a cozy cabin. I can’t wait for the next one! * Kimberly Lemming, author of That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf *
I loved it! I wish I could live in Bloomfield! * Sarah Beth Durst, New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop *

ISBN: 9781804951118

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm

Weight: 200g

256 pages