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Scarlett and the Dark Woods
2023
First Published
4.45
Average Rating
209
Number of Pages

She is one of the protected elect. He is a shunned shapeshifter. Can Scarlett rescue her grandmother before her heart is stolen? When her grandmother is cast out as unworthy after facing Hamelin’s annual Shunning, Scarlett knows she must brave the dangers of Darkwood Forest if she will have any chance of saving her grandmother. Her perilous adventure becomes a race against time. She needs to find Gran before the previously shunned get to her first. Scarlett’s efforts came too late. As her magic dwindles the farther into the forest she ventures, she becomes hopelessly lost, and is forced to accept help from Greyson, the shapeshifting wolf who is stalking her every footstep—and who Scarlett suspects of knowing Gran’s location. If she manages to save her grandmother, Scarlett is faced with another impossible join Gran and live her life as an outcast or return to the rest of the elect, safe but alone. As she struggles to find the right path forward, Scarlett realizes that more than her grandmother’s future is at stake. Her heart is too. Can Scarlett resist her inexplicable, rising attraction to the shunned wolf she despises long enough to protect the woman who raised her? Scarlett and the Dark Woods is a part of the Autumn Fairy Tales, a collection of eight cozy retellings of your favorite fairy tales. Each stand-alone book can be enjoyed in any order. Snuggle under your favorite blanket and get ready to “fall” in love with the romance, pumpkin spice, and everything nice of these sweet and clean novellas!

Avg Rating
4.45
Number of Ratings
415
5 STARS
63%
4 STARS
23%
3 STARS
10%
2 STARS
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1 STARS
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Author

Mary Mecham
Mary Mecham
Author · 11 books

Mary Mecham writes clean young adult fairy tale retellings packed full of adventure and romances. Get a FREE e-copy of her Rumpelstiltskin retelling, A Curse of Gold and Beauty, when you sign up for her newsletter at MaryMecham.com Mary is a born and raised Texan with a love of theater and books overshadowed only by her passion for disability advocacy. After she was cast in a theatrical production of Cinderella as the Ugly Stepsister, Mary decided to give a voice and background to her character and created her first novel Ugly: The Stepsister's Story. When she is not writing, Mary is an active disability advocate and speaker and holds multiple leadership positions in various disability rights related organizations, including running her own non-profit and coordinating Disability Book Week each year. Her dream is for everyone with a disability to find themselves represented in literature. Mary lives in Texas (and will never leave!) with her husband and three children. "I only review books I love. I don't want to tear down what someone worked hard on. If I didn't like it, I probably wasn't that book's target audience, so I don't review it, simple as that."

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