Welcome to Thistlemarsh!

I am delighted to share a closer look at the cover of Thistlemarsh (on sale April 21, 2026), as well as the book description and some praise that it has already recieved from some amazing authors! You can preorder your copy today at https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/769869/thistlemarsh-by-moorea-corrigan/. Please make sure to keep your receipts, as I will share news of the preorder campaign soon.

Praise

“Completely and wonderfully enchanting! The kind of book you immediately want to read again! I loved it!”

—Sarah Beth Durst, New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop

“An enchanting interwar fairy tale, where magic slips through the cracks of modernity, adventure waits behind locked doors, and charming faerie lords lay sleeping in stone. Like the fae themselves, Corrigan’s debut brims with whimsy, danger, and deceit. I adored it!”

—Allison Saft, # 1 New York Times bestselling author of A Dark and Drowning Tide

Book Description

Faeries disappeared over one hundred years ago, as suddenly as slipping through a doorway. It was only the very foolish, or the very determined, who held out hope for their return.

Welcome to Thistlemarsh—a ramshackle estate where an impoverished orphan and a beguiling Faerie collide in an enchanting novel of love, revenge, and ruin.

In the wake of World War I, the world is a decidedly unmagical place for Mouse Dunne. She once dreamed of becoming a Faerie anthropologist, but with one telegram, her world shattered. At the Battle of the Somme, her cousin’s body disappeared into the mud, and her brother was left with debilitating shell shock. It was time, she knew, to put aside childish dreams.

When Mouse receives news that her uncle has left her the Faerie-blessed Thistlemarsh Hall, a dilapidated manor in the English countryside, she must leave her brother’s side and return to her childhood home to claim her birthright. But there is a catch in her uncle’s offer: If Mouse does not rehabilitate the crumbling house in one month’s time, she will forfeit her inheritance and any hope of caring for her brother.

It quickly becomes clear it’s impossible to repair the manor in the allotted time, until a mysterious Faerie appears with a proposition. He offers to restore Thistlemarsh…for a price. Mouse knows better than to trust a Faerie—especially one so insufferably handsome and arrogant—but she is out of options. There are dark and magical forces at work in the house, and Mouse must confront the ghosts of her past and the secrets of her heart or lose Thistlemarsh, and herself, in the process.