Wilde House Magic is a second world romantic fantasy that will appeal to fans of Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries if Emily and Wendell were tasked with redecorating a house from a Nancy Meyers movie that was haunted by Calcifer from Howl’s Moving Castle.


It's for fans of:

  • Sunshine (m) grump (f) 
  • Flirtatious male leads
  • The "New Girl" kiss 
  • Wound tending
  • Only one bed (and only one nightshirt)
  • The pesky (but lovable) demon trope

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Christine L, Arnold, Romantic Fantasy Author

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WILDE HOUSE MAGIC


Eighteen-year-old magical interior designer Nettie Nevers has only ever wanted one thing—a home of her own. She and her sisters have spent their lives at the mercy of their mother’s husbands, each one worse than the last. Now, in large part thanks to her magic which lets her see and talk to house spirits, she’s at the cornice of finally being able to make her lifelong dream of buying a house for her family come true. Her portfolio has snagged a career-making opportunity: a high-profile redesign for the son of the city’s (once) most renowned magical scholars, Junipher Wilde.


Despite recently losing his second parent in as many years to dubious magical experiments, June is exactly what she expected—aggravatingly carefree and every bit the cad the papers have painted. He’s hired Nettie to update his house so that he can sell it, completely unruffled that he’s casting aside a ten-generation-long legacy of Wildes who cared for the home and its spirit before him. And to make her job harder, his cantankerous house spirit makes quick work of de-upholstering any new furniture, curdling wallpaper, locking Nettie in rooms, and sabotaging her at every turn. 


Desperate to win the spirit over so that the house can sell and she’ll get paid, Nettie follows the trail of destruction to a forbidden wing, where she uncovers a possible connection to the city-wide reports of missing people. When she confronts June (who may not care as little as he would like everyone to believe), he asks for her help finding answers, and in exchange will double her commission when his house sells. She’d almost rather eat wall paste, between his insincere advances and a growing—unwelcome—fondness for him carpeting her resolve. As they brush closer to the truth of the legacy June’s parents left behind, the magic Nettie has always taken for granted hangs in the balance, and she’ll have to decide if her dream is still worth what it will cost her—and who.