Lady of Uncanny Charms
In this thrilling final installment of the Whimbrel House series from Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg, Cora and Owein must uncover magical and secret conspiracies in the palace as the future they dreamed of is at stake.
Owein arrives in England to marry Lady Cora of Leiningen, his dearest friend and confidante he’s known mostly through letters. However, Queen Victoria has other plans in store for the centuries-old wizard. The queen is obsessed with preserving magic, and she believes Owein is the key to pursuing her lofty ambitions.
Torn from his family, his home, and his betrothed, Owein is pushed into the Queen’s League of Magicians, where he learns the crown’s upheaval of his life is only the beginning of his problems. Meanwhile Cora must push aside her broken heart and use her own spells and resources to uncover truths the queen wants hidden.
As new threats, former loves, untapped spells, and even older souls than Owein collide, his next choice could be his last: forfeit his heart, body, and magic to the insidious machinations of the crown, or commit treason against it.
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Charlie N. Holmberg
Charlie N. Holmberg has a knack for finding magic in the margins—the kind of wonder tucked inside ordinary things, like folded paper, whispered spells, or the quiet ache of a lonely heart. Best known for The Paper Magician series, she writes fantasy that doesn’t shout but hums—spellbinding stories where imaginative worlds meet deeply human characters, and the line between enchantment and reality is deliciously thin.
Raised in Salt Lake City and shaped by the worlds of anime and Star Trek, Holmberg’s early love for storytelling bloomed in fan fiction before evolving into fully realized novels. Her writing often carries that same sense of earnest imagination—worlds that are clever and surprising without ever losing their emotional grounding. Whether it’s the steampunk whimsy of The Plastic Magician, the eerie elegance of The Fifth Doll, or the slow-burning celestial magic of Star Mother, her books unfold with the quiet confidence of an author who trusts her readers to follow her into the strange and the beautiful.
Whimbrel House
Some houses whisper. Whimbrel House remembers.
Set against the brooding elegance of 19th-century New England, the Whimbrel House series unfolds like a forgotten diary—one inked in mystery, magic, and unexpected intimacy. What begins as a strange inheritance for Merritt Fernsby, a reclusive writer with no family and few attachments, soon becomes a reckoning with forces far older—and far more sentient—than he ever imagined. This house isn’t haunted in the traditional sense. It’s alive, and it doesn’t take kindly to strangers.
Whimbrel House consists of four books and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
