The Locked Library

Let’s play a game!

Your battery percentage decides who your monstrous love interest is!

100% to 80%: Werewolf 🐺
79% to 60%: Gargoyle 🗿
59% to 40%: Merfolk 🧜
39% to 20%: Dragon Shifter 🐉
19% to 1%: Vampire 🧛
 
Let us know which monstrous love interest you got! 👇

If you’re a monster romance girlie, you’ll love our March and April Forbidden Wing books, Heartsong by S. E. Wendel and Accidentally Wedded to a Werewolf by Isabelle Taylor - Romance Author!

Have you read it? Or is it on your TBR? 📚

It’s never too early to celebrate Halloween! 🎃

Let’s take a closer look at the stunning art featured in our Forbidden Wing exclusive edition of Summerween by Joss Wood! 🎨✨

Swipe through to see the artwork by S.J. Gautreaux up close. 👉

Our exclusive Forbidden Wing edition includes the following features and customisations:
🦇 Exclusive redesigned cover by S.J. Gautreaux
🦇 Beautiful digitally sprayed edges illustrated by S.J. Gautreaux
🦇 Block-sprayed top and bottom edges
🦇 Stunning foiled illustration on the hardcover by S.J. Gautreaux
🦇 Illustrated endpapers (different front and back), illustrated by S.J. Gautreaux
🦇 Bound-in author letter with a digital signature
🦇 Matching spine to The Forbidden Wing collection
🦇 Collectible Forbidden Wing title page
🦇 Ribbon marker
🦇 Demy hardback
 
Please be aware that the design shown is a digital mock-up and the finished product may vary slightly.
 
Subscriber price: £22 plus shipping (and VAT, if applicable) for active subscribers to The Locked Library or The Forbidden Wing.
General sale price: £25 plus shipping (and VAT, if applicable).
 
Shipping information:
🦇 Expected to ship in early September
🦇 Shipping globally 🌍
 
Sale dates:
🦇 Early access: 30th June, 2pm BST, for active subscribers to The Locked Library or The Forbidden Wing
🦇 General sale: 1st July, 2pm BST

We are almost halfway through the year (how has the year gone so fast?!), but there are still so many amazing books coming this year that the Librarians are excited about.

Which is your most anticipated release of the second half of 2026?

Ours are:
The Emperor’s Enemy by Jasmine Mas
Runebreaker by Mila Finch
Heir of Prophecy by Analeigh Sbrana
A Snake Among Swans by Hannah Kaner
Nemesis Mine by Amy Archer
This Shattered Tempest by Thea Guanzon
Big Bad Wolf by Laurie Gilmore
The Blood Mage and the Dragon Knight by Jaya Martin 
Summerween by Joss Wood
Yes, Chef by Grace Reilly 
The Someday Garden by Ashley Poston 
Grim Tidings by B.K. Borison 
Rider of Dragons by A.T. Qureshi 
Unrivaled by Rachel Reid 
To Vex and To Hex by Neena Noon 

Introducing our July Forbidden Wing theme…
 
🦊 The Fox and the Maiden 🦊
 
Forced into a betrothal with the most reviled man in the land, a young maiden finds herself kidnapped by the very magical creatures she has been raised to fear: the Fae. Drawn to her sinfully handsome captor, he stands between her and the life she has always known. The more time she spends among them, the more she begins to question everything. As rescue closes in, she must make the ultimate choice: the family she was born into, or the love she never expected to find.
 
Our Forbidden Wing edition includes the following features and customisations:
🗝️ Exclusive redesigned cover by with foil
🗝️ Gorgeous digitally sprayed edges on all three sides by
🗝️ Stunning foiled design on the hardcover by
🗝️ Character-art endpapers (different front and back) illustrated by
🗝️ Bound-in author letter with a digital signature
🗝️ Matching spine to The Forbidden Wing collection
🗝️ Collectible Forbidden Wing title page
🗝️ Ribbon marker
🗝️ Demy hardback
🗝️Designed by
 
Why you’ll love our July book:
🩵 Spicy Romantasy
🩵 Enemies to Lovers
🩵 Robin Hood Retelling
🩵 Forced Proximity
🩵 Found Family
🩵 Perfect for fans of Heavenly Bodies, The Knight and the Moth & A Fate Forged in Fire

Introducing our July Forbidden Wing theme…
 
🦊 The Fox and the Maiden 🦊
 
Forced into a betrothal with the most reviled man in the land, a young maiden finds herself kidnapped by the very magical creatures she has been raised to fear: the Fae. Drawn to her sinfully handsome captor, he stands between her and the life she has always known. The more time she spends among them, the more she begins to question everything. As rescue closes in, she must make the ultimate choice: the family she was born into, or the love she never expected to find.
 
Our Forbidden Wing edition includes the following features and customisations:
🗝️ Exclusive redesigned cover by with foil
🗝️ Gorgeous digitally sprayed edges on all three sides by
🗝️ Stunning foiled design on the hardcover by
🗝️ Character-art endpapers (different front and back) illustrated by
🗝️ Bound-in author letter with a digital signature
🗝️ Matching spine to The Forbidden Wing collection
🗝️ Collectible Forbidden Wing title page
🗝️ Ribbon marker
🗝️ Demy hardback
🗝️Designed by
 
Why you’ll love our July book:
🩵 Spicy Romantasy
🩵 Enemies to Lovers
🩵 Robin Hood Retelling
🩵 Forced Proximity
🩵 Found Family
🩵 Perfect for fans of Heavenly Bodies, The Knight and the Moth & A Fate Forged in Fire