The Impossible Garden of Clara Thorne
On sale
7th April 2026
Price: £22
Genre
‘A stunningly magical and sexy debut’ – Rebecca Thorne
Love grows in the most unimaginable of places . . .
After a lonely childhood, Clara Thorne is finally living “happily ever after” as the magically-gifted gardener for the town of Moss. Sure, her closest companion is a surly hedgehog, and she’s forever stuck on the first line of her novel, but she has a home. That is, until The Goddess chooses Clara for an important quest-travel to the cursed town of Dwindle and grow them a garden. In less than a month.
Only Clara’s hiding a terrible secret: her magic doesn’t work outside Moss. Worse, The Goddess has assigned the absurdly sexy, annoyingly cheerful Hesper Altanfall to keep her safe. Clara would rather eat thorns than accept help-especially since Hesper insists that Clara’s magic is bound to her heart, not her home.
Nevertheless, the two can’t help growing closer as they traverse enchanted woods and share tavern beds. But with an ancient evil threatening from the shadows, saving Dwindle will require more than enchanted crops. Clara will need to unearth a magic she’s always believed impossible.
Enchantment is in the air in this sweet, spicy queer fantasy romance for fans of The Spellshop and The Princess Bride.
TROPES
Sapphic slow-burn romance
Forced proximity
Bodyguard
One bed trope
Chosen one
READERS REVIEWS
‘This book is top tier’
‘I absolutely loved this book’
‘A fantastic plot that makes it impossible to put the book down’
‘I am so incredibly grateful for this book and the magic of the story’
‘This is a book to sit with, to take some time with, to smile and giggle with and roll your eyes and cry with’
Love grows in the most unimaginable of places . . .
After a lonely childhood, Clara Thorne is finally living “happily ever after” as the magically-gifted gardener for the town of Moss. Sure, her closest companion is a surly hedgehog, and she’s forever stuck on the first line of her novel, but she has a home. That is, until The Goddess chooses Clara for an important quest-travel to the cursed town of Dwindle and grow them a garden. In less than a month.
Only Clara’s hiding a terrible secret: her magic doesn’t work outside Moss. Worse, The Goddess has assigned the absurdly sexy, annoyingly cheerful Hesper Altanfall to keep her safe. Clara would rather eat thorns than accept help-especially since Hesper insists that Clara’s magic is bound to her heart, not her home.
Nevertheless, the two can’t help growing closer as they traverse enchanted woods and share tavern beds. But with an ancient evil threatening from the shadows, saving Dwindle will require more than enchanted crops. Clara will need to unearth a magic she’s always believed impossible.
Enchantment is in the air in this sweet, spicy queer fantasy romance for fans of The Spellshop and The Princess Bride.
TROPES
Sapphic slow-burn romance
Forced proximity
Bodyguard
One bed trope
Chosen one
READERS REVIEWS
‘This book is top tier’
‘I absolutely loved this book’
‘A fantastic plot that makes it impossible to put the book down’
‘I am so incredibly grateful for this book and the magic of the story’
‘This is a book to sit with, to take some time with, to smile and giggle with and roll your eyes and cry with’
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Reviews
A stunningly magical and sexy debut. Clara and Hesper are the couple I've been waiting for - powerfully magical enemies to lovers, with a slow burn that ignited the entire book. Couple that with a beautifully whimsical world full of mermaids and orcs and fae, animal companions I was dying to snuggle (but carefully, because hedgehog), and an edge of looming darkness, and I was hooked
Warm and wonderful! The Impossible Garden of Clara Thorne is the kind of book that blossoms in your heart!
Chaotic, spicy, cozy, and full of fiercest love-this could only have come from the impossible heart of Summer N. England