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Also by Heather Fawcett:

Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter, February 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales, November 2025
Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook (reprint)
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales, February 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands, January 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries, January 2023
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook

AGNES AUBERT'S MYSTICAL CAT SHELTER
By: Heather Fawcett

Random House Publishing Group
February 2026
On Sale: February 17, 2026
368 pages
ISBN: 0593973259
EAN: 9780593973257
Kindle: B0F92B9CCF
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
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Fantasy Historical | Science Fiction

A woman who runs a cat rescue in 1920s Montréal turns to a grouchy but charming magician to help save her shelter in this heartwarming cozy fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of the Emily Wilde series.

“Absolutely magnificent! Full of cats and magic, this is the kind of book you want to instantly reread. I loved every character, every cat, and every moment with all my heart!”—Sarah Beth Durst, New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop

Agnes Aubert leads a meticulously organized life, and she likes it that way. As the proudly type-A manager of a cat rescue charity, she has devoted her life to finding forever homes for stray cats.

Now it’s the shelter that needs a new home. And the only landlord who will rent a space to a cat rescue is a mysterious man called Havelock—who also happens to be the world’s most infamous magician, running an illegal magic shop out of his basement. Havelock is cantankerous and eccentric, but not not handsome, and no, Agnes absolutely does not feel anything but disdain for him. After all, rumors swirl about his shadowy past—including whispers that his dark magic once almost brought about the apocalypse.

Then one day a glamorous magician comes looking for Havelock, putting the magic shop—and the cat shelter—in jeopardy. To save the shelter, Agnes will have to team up with the magician who nearly ended the world . . . and may now be trying to steal her heart.

Havelock is everything Agnes thinks she doesn’t need in her life: chaos, mischief, and a little too much adventure. But as she gets to know him, she discovers that he’s more than the dark magician of legend, and that she may be ready for a little intrigue—and romance—in her life. After all, second chances aren’t just for rescue cats. . . .