• Book box for 'Elodie and the Dark Lord' by Ashley Poston, featuring a purple cover with gold lettering and an illustration of a couple under a window, shown on a white background with light blue side bars.
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[PREORDER] Elodie and the Dark Lord by Ashley Poston

[PREORDER] Elodie and the Dark Lord by Ashley Poston

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Special first edition deluxe • magicless librarian FMC • magical academy infiltration • missing brother mystery • Dark Lord professor MMC • cursed to live as a cat • unlikely allies • seaside kingdom vibes • cozy-sweeping romantasy with secrets

This title will be released on March 16, 2027.

Perfect for readers of:

  • Ashley Poston’s signature heartfelt romance, now with magic and mystery
  • Magical academy stories with a clever, determined heroine on a mission
  • “Villain of legend isn’t what he seems” slow-burn alliances
  • Curses, glamours, and a cat who is absolutely not just a cat

Spice: 2/5

Romantic, swoony tension with a storybook fantasy feel.

The vibe

Elodie Kess is a librarian in a quiet seaside town—more scholar than adventurer. She’s a student of magic from the outside looking in, living with a strange affliction that deadens spells at her touch. Reading about magic is as close as she’s ever gotten to it… until her life is upended.
Her brother Emmerick, a respected professor at the High Arcanum Conservatory, disappears—along with his coveted research. Elodie is certain she’s the only one who can save him, so she infiltrates the Conservatory, glamoured as a graduate student. Her prime suspect is the school’s most infamous professor: a centuries-old Dark Lord, cursed to live as a cat.
Then Elodie’s affliction dispels his curse—revealing the disarmingly attractive man beneath—and the two become unlikely allies. As they dig into Emmerick’s disappearance, Elodie discovers the Dark Lord is nothing like the villain of legend… and that trusting him might be the most dangerous spell of all. Because every legend has a grain of truth—and the Dark Lord was cursed for a reason.

Tropes & tags

  • Fantasy romance / new duology
  • Magicless librarian FMC / scholar heroine
  • Magical academy infiltration / secret identity
  • Missing brother mystery
  • Dark Lord professor MMC
  • Cursed to live as a cat (curse broken)
  • Unlikely allies → romantic tension
  • Glamours, secrets, and legend-lore
  • Seaside kingdom setting

Edition note (Special first edition deluxe)

Includes an enchanted cover with effects, illustrated interior art, and stenciled edges.
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