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Sarah Hodges
Margins of Mystery: Winter Reading for the Intellectually Adventurous
The following selections represent a deliberate departure from the familiar: novels that blur the boundaries between historical fact and spectral imagination, scholarly pursuits and mystical revelations. They invite readers into intellectual terrains where knowledge is not a destination, but a perpetual, transformative journey.
Our Spring into Summer Book Recs for May
Sarah Hodges
Our Spring into Summer Book Recs for May

The trees are practically dripping with new life, luring you into tales full of lush mysteries and shadowy sylvan magic. We've curated five entrancing spring/summer reads to spirit you away to enchanted forests, bewitched small towns, and the heart of nature's most seductively sinister secrets.

Embrace atmospheric tales like The Wood Wife, When the Moon Was Ours, and These Fleeting Shadows. Consider this your trail map into the season's strange adventures...just mind where those winding paths may lead!

Click here to browse our full list of darkly whimsical, fae-touched summer book recommendations.

Spring into your next read with April's Book Recommendations
Sarah Hodges
Spring into your next read with April's Book Recommendations
We've curated 5 titles for our April recommendations.  Each story is dark tale full of mystery and surprises.  Prepare to get utterly lost in these transportive, vaguely unsettling springtime tales tinged with mystery.
March 2024's Recommended Reading List
Sarah Hodges
March 2024's Recommended Reading List
As winter's chill fades, March beckons us into spring's realm of spectral rebirth and ominous blooms. The veil between worlds thins, inviting us to explore uncanny realms where nature's sinister rebirth tangles with the unseen.
Beyond Valentine's: Darkly Romantic Reads for February
Sarah Hodges
Beyond Valentine's: Darkly Romantic Reads for February

For those who crave passion tinged with darkness, February demands stories that haunt as profoundly as they beguile. Let us tempt you with forbidden romances, ambitious obsessions, and supernatural seductions from the shadows.

Surrender to the pull of these intoxicating tales, rich with Gothic mystery and academic intrigue. But be warned - such affairs of the heart come at a perilous price.

January's Book Picks: 5 Captivating Reads to Start the New Year
Sarah Hodges
January's Book Picks: 5 Captivating Reads to Start the New Year
As we begin 2024, it's the perfect time to get lost in a great book. Stories have the power to transport us to different times and places, sparking our imagination and providing much-needed escapism. This January, curl up with these engrossing page-turners that will whisk you away.
Beyond the Usual Suspects: Spellbinding Tales for December
Sarah Hodges
Beyond the Usual Suspects: Spellbinding Tales for December

Haven't we all cozied up with Rebecca, Wuthering Heights, and The Secret History enough times? This December, our book recommendations embrace the darkly magical and marvelously obscure. Prepare to discover your next obsession.

Led by irresistibly complex characters, these underground stories conjure the ghostly, the ambitious, and the philosophical. Let their otherworldly allure carry you away on chilly nights. Just don't read them by candlelight if you scare easily...

November's Nocturne: Enchanting Reads for the Darkening Days
Sarah Hodges
November's Nocturne: Enchanting Reads for the Darkening Days
As November's chill sets in, it's the perfect time to curl up with tales that stir the soul and challenge the mind. Winsome Wicks invites you to embrace the longer nights with books that reflect our brand's unique essence of warmth and shadowy comfort. Here's this month's curated list of reads, paired with candle scent recommendations to illuminate your journey through their pages.