Letters from the Last Apothecary (Tressport Magic, Book 1)

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781837826797
  • Weight: 340g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Jun 2026
  • Publisher: Hay House UK Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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EMILY WILDE meets DIVINE RIVALS in this debut cozy historical romantic fantasy about a grumpy apothecarist, the whirlwind woman who comes to save his shop, and the letters that secretly unite them. You've Got Mail with a magical twist!

Nestled between steel skyscrapers lies a small shop stocked with old magic and experimental elixirs. This cozy historical romantic fantasy debut is a tale of mistaken identity, reluctant partnership, and the quiet, transformative magic of being truly seen—on and off the page.

Josephine Pinova doesn’t believe in fate. Yet, it must be fate when she walks into one of the last magical apothecaries in the city and they offer her a job after she’s just been fired.

Struggling against a tide of anti-magic sentiment amidst the city's rapid industrialization, the shop is slated to close in six short months unless Josie can save it. Luckily, she's no stranger to impossible odd—she's applying to study magic at the local university, something women are typically excluded from—even as the shop's prickly apothecarist, Aufidius Reid, seems determined to dislike her.

Reid finds her unbearably insistent. She finds him infuriatingly uptight—nothing like the sensitive scholar Josie has been exchanging anonymous letters with as they study together for entrance to a graduate magic program. A scholar who just so happens to be Reid himself, unbeknownst to either of them.

Letter by letter, they fall in love. But at work, Josie and Reid clash constantly about the direction of the business. As pressure rises, they discover the threat to the shop is more dangerous than they could have ever imagined, and working together to save it might be their only chance at true purpose, and at each other.

Bita Behzadi writes fantasy novels of all kinds, though she's always sure to include a little sadness in a comedy and a little humor in a tragedy. She possesses a conditionally useful engineering degree from The University of California, Berkeley, and a love of analytically sampling sweet treats. Visit her online at BitaBehzadi.com.

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