The Moonsingers (Deluxe Edition): A Cozy Fairy Tale

By Robyn J Pritzker

"Full of fairy magic and small-town charm... Completely delightful " -- Sarah Beth Durst, New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faries meets The House in the Cerulean Sea in this heartwarming and whimsical cozy fantasy with a warm, unusual cast of characters, small everyday magic, and a dash of romance.

In a quiet glen beyond the reach of the railway lives a peculiar family who knows the best magic is the kind found in ordinary moments.

When Ismay Gebhardt is dismissed from yet another teaching post after an unfortunate accident (which everyone survived ), she accepts a last-chance job as a private tutor in sleepy Glenmaidens village. The town is brimming with natural beauty, uncanny traditions, and earnest locals, none more unusual than her three young pupils--the Underhill sisters--and their puzzling father.

Determined to make herself useful after several catastrophic lessons with the unbiddable girls, Ismay writes to the transport bureau suggesting an extension to the train line, hoping to bring Glenmaidens into modernity. As usual, Ismay's good intentions lead to chaos with the arrival of the bureau's frustratingly thorough officer, Hamish Breck, whose railway plans threaten not only the glen's tranquility, but also the ancient oak tree at its heart. Amidst a mess of her own making, Ismay unearths Glenmaidens' enchanted secret: the Underhills, like many villagers, are fairies who settled in the mortal world in search of a gentler life, and the oak is their only bridge back to the moonlit realm of the fantastic.

As summer heat rises, Ismay schemes with her magical neighbors to prevent the extension, each day finding herself more entangled with the charming, persistent bureaucrat. With her newfound family, the way between worlds, and her heart all at risk, Ismay must decide how much she would bargain to finally embrace the wonder and belonging she's always wished for.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1464262896
• ISBN13: 9781464262890
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Truly whimsical and charming story

A beautiful weaving of words into a truly interesting tale. It’s rare I read a book and I can’t figure out the entire tale from the beginning. While yes some hints are there right off, some take time in their unweaving to get to the heart of things. We have a FMC running from her past to unknown future. A new town that feels foreign even though not far away from her family home. Working for a family different from those she’s known and a much less formal way of being than she was used to. Doing what she can to attempt to endear herself to these new people seems to go entirely wrong and causes more issues and an enemy in the local school teacher leaves her struggling with how to correct things. Then there is the song that she hears at night when she leaves her window open and the vivid dreams it causes. Ismay struggles to make senses of things and rushing to make her seemingly errors, right again. Then enter a bureaucrat to add another stone in her shoe wanting to change things that she had hope to endear herself to the towns people, she now knows was a mistake to instigate. Now with only a few weeks, Ismay must try to correct things and make certain her past secrets don’t ruin the home she has found and deal with her growing feelings for the handsome and somewhat awkward bureaucrat, Hammish, as she attempts to make his project difficult to accomplish. Story seems to be long in getting to where it seems worth reading, but once it does you become enamored with the way the story unfurls and the images that you can see with the wonderfully worded descriptions by the author. Lovely world is laid out and I could have even had more of the story as I am now left wondering about the outcomes of some of the minor characters and what will happen with them. An arc read