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Also by Ashley Schumacher:

Say It Out Loud, September 2025
Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
In the Orbit of You, March 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
The Renaissance of Gwen Hathaway, March 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Full Flight, March 2022
Hardcover / e-Book

THE RENAISSANCE OF GWEN HATHAWAY
By: Ashley Schumacher

St. Martin’s Press
March 2023
On Sale: March 14, 2023
320 pages
ISBN: 1250840244
EAN: 9781250840240
Kindle: B09Y462517
Hardcover / e-Book
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Young Adult | Romance Comedy

Dumplin' meets Well Met in this novel about finding your place in the world, learning love is a risk worth taking, and discovering what happens when you take your fate into your own hands.

Since her mother’s death, Madeline “Gwen” Hathaway has been determined that nothing in her life will change ever again. That’s why she keeps extensive lists in journals, has had only one friend since childhood, and looks forward to the monotony of working the ren faire circuit with her father. Until she arrives at her mother’s favorite end-of-tour stop to find the faire is under new management and completely changed.

Meeting Arthur, the son of the new owners and an actual lute-playing bard, messes up Maddie’s plans even more. For some reason, he wants to be her friend - and ropes her into becoming Princess of the Faire. Now Maddie is overseeing a faire dramatically changed from what her mother loved and going on road trips vastly different from the routine she used to rely on. Worst of all, she’s kind of having fun.

Ashley Schumacher's The Renaissance of Gwen Hathaway is filled with a wise old magician who sells potion bottles, gallant knights who are afraid of horses and ride camels instead, kings with a fondness for theatrics, a lazy river castle moat with inflatable crocodile floaties, and a plus-sized heroine with a wide open heart... if only she just admits it.

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