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Nightcurse

by Emma Hinds

A Gothic mystery in an afterlife library

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A Gothic mystery in an afterlife library

Emrys Swift has spent 157 years as a seventeen-year-old Revenant, tending the NeverEnd library’s collection of witchlore. When a new Revenant arrives and magical artifacts begin disappearing, he joins forces with Aubrey Vale—a shapeshifter and longtime enemy—to investigate. Their search takes them into the world of night-kin, where ghosts, mermaids, and the pursuing Night Hunt complicate the mystery. The supernatural investigation is entwined with questions about Emrys’s death, Aubrey’s life, and whether two magically bonded rivals can imagine a future together. Emma Hinds’s fantasy combines dark academia and Gothic mystery with an enemies-to-lovers romance.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Young adult fantasy readers interested in revenants, witches, shapeshifters, and other supernatural elements.
  • Readers who enjoy mysteries set around magical libraries and missing artifacts.
  • Readers looking for an enemies-to-lovers romance alongside a Gothic fantasy adventure.

Themes

Immortality and deathLove and rivalrySecrets and mysteryMagic and supernatural folklore

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Book overview

Cursed with eternity, haunted by love-discover the truth about living forever in this achingly atmospheric dark academia fantasy.

Emrys Swift is so dead. One hundred and fifty seven years worth of dead, to be exact. He's a Revenant, nightcursed, destined to be stuck being seventeen forever. Hidden away, he spends his infinite days as an undead librarian of witchlore at the NeverEnd library-until a new Revenant arrives and magical artifacts start going missing, jeopardizing his beloved home.

Emrys's mortal enemy and annoyingly attractive shapeshifter Aubrey Vale is determined to solve the mystery-with Emrys's help. Suddenly Emrys and Aubrey are magically bonded together on a quest into the dark and frost-bitten world of night-kin. But as Emrys and Aubrey interrogate ghosts and face drowning by mermaids, deathly creatures aren't the only spectres haunting them. With the ghoulish Night Hunt chasing them down, can they outrun the secrets of Emrys' death and Aubrey's life? And if they can save NeverEnd's future, can they have a future together?

Hauntingly gorgeous and tender, Emma Hinds' Nightcurse is both a Gothic mystery and an enemies-to-lovers romance about navigating life and love in the face of death.

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