A Lesson in Thorns

When librarian Poe Markham takes the job at Thornchapel, she only wants two things: to stay away from Thornchapel's tortured owner, Auden Guest, and to find out what happened to her mother twelve years ago. It should be easy enough--keep her head down while she works in the house's crumbling private library and while she hunts down any information as to why this remote manor tucked into the fog-shrouded moors would be the last place her mother was seen alive. But Thornchapel has other plans for her...

As Poe begins uncovering the house's secrets, both new and old, she's also pulled into the seductive, elegant world of Auden and his friends--and drawn to Auden's worst enemy, the beautiful and brooding St. Sebastian. And as Thornchapel slowly tightens its coil of truths and lies around them, Poe, Auden and St. Sebastian start unravelling into filthy, holy pleasure and pain. Together, they awaken a fate that will either anoint them or leave them in ashes...

From the author of the USA Today bestselling New Camelot series comes an original fairy tale full of ancient mysteries, lantern-lit rituals, jealousy, money, murder, sacred torment, and obsessions that last for lifetimes...

A Lesson in Thorns is Book One in the Thornchapel Quartet.

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3.8

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Ina

9.10.2025

Beautiful writing and enjoyable pacing, this was a fast read for me. Surprisingly, I enjoyed the switching between first & third person. At about 50% the book starts to get spicy and the spice is at least 4/5 chilis, and it's weird and wonderful. I'd give this book 5 stars but it's book 1 out of 4 and I feel like it could've been a beautiful standalone, if a little longer. I'm not sure if I'm in it for three more books, at least I'm not eager to jump into the next book right away.

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