A Tailor of Ill Repute (The Ashcroft Bookshop Mysteries)

PLEASE NOTE: This is not a full-sized book. It's a novella.

Brock Thunder isn't going soft.

He’s an escaped supervillain, dragon slayer, experimental fairy-dust weapons expert, and future ruler of the magical world. Hiding in his aunt’s enchanted bookshop is temporary and feeding a judgmental orange cat is strategic. Accepting daily flowers from a painfully optimistic little girl means nothing at all.

Then Phillipa’s treasured storybook is purchased by a smug goblin who plans to destroy its rare magical binding.

Naturally, Brock must intervene.

Unfortunately, intervening may involve breaking into shops, derailing one very small train, evading the Iron Council, drinking tea with the sister who betrayed him, and confronting the horrifying possibility that he has become attached to people.

A cozy fantasy novella about an escaped villain, an enchanted bookshop, a magical cat, and the terrible inconvenience of having a heart.

Set in the same magical small town as Tea, Tomes, and Dragons, A Tailor of Ill Repute can be enjoyed as a standalone cozy fantasy—or as part of the larger Emberville world.