How To Find A Nameless Fae

by A. J. Lancaster

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Pub Date 6 Aug 2026 | Archive Date 6 Aug 2026

General Fiction (Adult) | Romance | Sci Fi & Fantasy

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Description

'Witty, heartfelt, romantic and utterly charming'
– Stephanie Burgis, author of Wooing the Witch Queen

A spectacularly cosy fantasy which reimagines the Rumpelstiltskin story – where the havoc of an unpaid debt leads to an unlikely romance.

Princess Gisele has spent her life waiting for an evil fae sorcerer to claim her. It was the price of her mother’s crown – her first-born child for the ability to spin straw into gold. But it’s been decades, and he still hasn’t shown up. Now, the magic has curdled into a curse.

So Gisele marches into the fae realm to hunt down her ‘Malediction’. Yet instead of a monster, she finds a scholarly, cat-eared sorcerer and his meddling, sentient house. And he wants nothing to do with the angry, knife-wielding princess on his doorstep. Unfortunately, the magic that binds them won’t let them go that easily. And in a house that rearranges itself to keep them together, Gisele discovers that the man who ruined her life might just steal her heart.

She came to end him, but she might stay to save him.

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Readers love this book:

'I absolutely adored the characters, their connection and their story. I laughed and smiled so hard through the whole book. 100% recommend'

'This felt like Howl’s Moving Castle meets Emily Wilde. There’s a talking cat, a magical house, a curse and a romance'

'I LOVE this book! It's really soft and lovely'

'Loved it, absolutely perfect escapism, all aspects are brilliantly balanced, the magic, the stakes, the humour, the romance'

'Funny, fresh and binge-read worthy'

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EDITION	Other Format
ISBN	9781037409509
PRICE	£22.00 (GBP)
PAGES	400

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Sabie A, Reviewer

"How well she knew that emotion, the regret of not taking action sooner, of being a passive passenger in your own life for far too long."

GENRE: Cozy Fantasy with Romance
RATING: 4/5
FORMAT: eBook Arc (Indie version & trad pub version)
Tropes: Rumpelstilskin Retelling, Forced Proximity, Magical house, Cursed princess, Magical Bond

Overall Impression: What a lovely cozy fantasy with romance that will have you giggling and a sentient house? I was SO in and after reading it, still loving it!

Review:
This is a story of Gisele and well, our nameless MCs. We go through a journey of Gisele trying to undo the curse placed on her as it has shaped her life and left her feeling as an outcast. The issue in here is that the Fae who cursed her never turns up to claim her, despite being prepared her whole life to go to the Fae world and live amongst them
"The monster who had, most monstrously of all, never turned up."

Due to the curse, Gisele is an outcast in her community because others around her can feel the effect of her magic. The older she gets, the worse the whole situation gets and she struggles to keep it under control. As she takes an adventure to the Fae side, to find her curser, we journey through it with her and watch her meet our nameless MMC.

And as a cozy fantasy, How to find a Nameless Fae, dives deep into what it feels like to not belong and what it means when you exist in a family that has a love which is conditional. It dives into forming an identity around something that you never did or partook in (in this case, Gisele living her life based on a curse that happened with her mother).
"They did - love you - before?" He nodded, though there was a shadow of doubnt in his eyes that made her own chest ache. Oh, she knew what it was to be unsure of your family's love, to feel its conditionality. To fear getting too close to its limits."

And I think one of my favourite thing is the found family both the MCs find in their community throughout the book. This is a lovely cozy book that delves deeply into conditional love, finding your own people and learning to trust after living your whole life being told that you would earn love IF you met the person's expectations.

I was provided a free advance reader copy and I’m sharing my honest thoughts. I did read the Indie version and have the trad version now too!

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