The Magician of Tiger CastleAN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER AN INDIE NEXT LIST PICK A LIBRARY READS PICK The beloved author of Holes presents his first adult novel, a modern fantasy classic of forbidden love, a crumbling kingdom, and the unexpected magic all around us. "After decades of children's stories with adult intelligence, Sachar has given us an adult novel with a child's heart" Alix E. Harrow "Funny, surprising, smart and weird . . . fully lives up to the high bar you'd

resilience

Or would the tension I feel between us snap and release something feral inside her

gorgeous concoction

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they kept their love a secret

She refuses to become one of the eerily sweet Alarie girls in their prim white dresses

Iris has never managed to hold down a job for more than a few months

Each print area can contain one design file

she's desperate when she finds a too-good-to-be-true apartment in a beautiful Chicago neighborhood

After waking from enchanted sleep

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But even more captivating is her charismatic adviser