Howl's Moving Castle meets The House in the Cerulean Sea in this charming, whimsical, and slightly dark debut that is making waves in the cosy fantasy genre.
The Story In Foss Butcher’s village, life is simple—until the magic-workers come. Everyone knows they harvest human hearts for spells, but Foss (practical, plain, and clumsy as a boot) never expected them to want hers.
When a sulking sorcerer named Sylvester accidentally "snags" a piece of Foss’s heart, she refuses to accept her fate. Furious and terrified of the unpleasant side effects of a snagged heart, Foss marches straight to the sorcerer's enchanted House in the Grand City to demand a cure.
But Sylvester isn't the terrifying villain she imagined. He is petulant, idle, new to his powers, and has absolutely no idea how to fix her. Stuck together with a clever talking cat and a house that has mood swings, Foss and Sylvester must work together to undo the magic before it’s too late
