AN USA TODAY BESTSELLER! DELUXE EDITION-featuring beautiful stenciled edges stylish
endpapers a foil casestamp and a detailed map. The most powerful sorceress in all the world
comes face to face with her greatest rival in this enchanting and seductive fantasy romance
debut from Jennifer K. Lambert. The Dread Sorceress Oneira has retired. She's fought and won
endless wars for her ambitious queen and has finally exiled herself seeking peace in a remote
forest where the mountains meet the beach. There in the peculiar company of a wolf a kestrel
and a cat she comes to accept that her death would be the beginning of a better world. But
she has one last curiosity to satisfy. Oneira makes a reckless trip from her hidden fortress
to the most extensive library in existence: the collection of her most powerful rival the
sorcerer Stearanos. Perhaps at the behest of fate a book on rare roses catches her eye. With
little to lose she steals it and returns to her self-imposed exile. As the subject takes root
she initiates a forbidden correspondence with her once-enemy. Taunting notes and clever retorts
reveal a connection neither has found-nor could ever find-in any other. But Oneira soon learns
that Stearanos bound to a vile king is called to war against the queen she once served. A
relationship with him is far too dangerous to pursue despite their mutual desire-and yet
Oneira can't seem to stay away. A bond with the only person who's ever really understood her is
too tempting to ignore. But not all dreams were meant to come true and not all budding
romance blooms. Exquisitely crafted and bewitchingly lyrical Never the Roses is like Circe
by Madeline Miller meets The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent. "[A] fresh
take on enemies to lovers that will have readers swooning. A must-add for any romantasy shelf."
- Booklist starred review Expect: - Rivals to lovers - Forbidden love - Slow burn -
Starcrossed lovers - Tragic romance - Dark past - Redemption - Unexpected ending
