By Magic Beguiled

By Maggie Shayne

Book Overview

From New York Times and USA Today Bestselling, RITA(R) Award-winning author Maggie Shayne.

A hidden world. A stolen painting. A love written in magic.

"Maggie Shayne delivers romance with sweeping intensity and bewitching passion." -Jayne Ann Krentz, #1 New York Times bestselling author

As a child, Adam escaped his father's cruelty in the forest near their home. One day, he crawled through a hidden tunnel and emerged into another world-a place of crystal pools, enchanted light, and a beautiful fairy child who danced in the water.

It was only imagination...

Or so he believes-until years later, when he discovers a painting of that very glade. The same shimmering pool. The same mysterious girl. The impossible place he's never been able to forget.

The painting becomes his most treasured possession.

Brigit has always known she was different. After a fire destroyed the orphanage where she lived, she survived on the streets with only Raze-the man who saved her-and a strange book left with her as a baby. Gifted with the ability to paint anything she sees with perfect precision, Brigit uses her talent to keep them alive.

Until the wrong people notice.

When Raze is kidnapped, Brigit is given an impossible choice. To save him, she must get close to Adam, copy his painting, and steal the original for the man who holds Raze's life in his hands.

But the painting is more than art.

It is the key to Brigit's lost past, her connection to the enchanted world Adam once stumbled into, and a message left by a twin sister she never knew existed-one that points the way to her destiny.

As magic awakens and danger closes in, Adam and Brigit are drawn together by forces older and stronger than either of them understands...forces that could unite their hearts-or tear their worlds apart.

Fans of films like The Huntsman will devour this spellbinding romantic fantasy.

This book was originally titled Fairytale.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GXC6C658
• ISBN13: 9798900431574
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Oliver-Heber Books
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful - Must read

I read this months ago but am still thinking of how wonderful the book really was. If you enjoy magic and love, this is the book to read! Maggie Shayne is a great author and I have enjoyed her magical tales.

Fantasy Romance

Brigit was left on the steps of the orphanage as a baby with a handmade book called "Fairytale" and a pendant. The nuns told her she was a twin but she could never find proof of a sister. At age nine she ends up living in the streets and eventually earns desparately needed cash but using her amazing ability (magical?) to forge great works of art. She escapes to the straight life when a visitor from the past threatens her into forging a painting owned by Adam. Turns out the painting was painted by the twin and is of a glen in the fairytale world. Adam had stubbled "across" as a child and knows the meaning of the picture. It was in the book and so Brigit knows what it means. The book revolves around the growing romanced between the two as they struggle with both evil humans and their own confusion about the meaning of the painting.It's all pretty farfetched but the book is certainly a pleasant enough read. Not a keeper for me though - no tears or belly laughs.

It's hard to put down this magical love story

This is one of those books that you hate to see end. It kept me in suspense right up to the last pages. Makes me want to sit down and write!

This book is definitely a keeper!

Once again Maggie Shayne has written a book I'll read again and again. She's one of the few authors whose books I don't trade or loan out. I just wish she could write them as fast as I like to read them.