Women’s Paranormal Fiction with a Cozy Vibe …
Visit the small city of Whippoorwill Gap, NC, where the hidden faeries traipse. Join my mailing list for a short story prequel on how they wound up in The Robins Nest, a used bookshop, run by the widowed Harper Wood.
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Tucked away in North Carolina’s western mountains, in the town of Whippoorwill Gap, awaits a special bookshop, where otherworldly beings flit on the edges of awareness.
Over the centuries, nine fae formed a troop when two Native Yunwi Tsundhi’ met brownies, sprites, a hob, a gnome, and a wood nymph from the British Isles, Scandinavia, and Africa. In time, they formed unbreakable bonds.
Faery Tales will be released on 9 July.
About the Author
Now that she’s retired, L.C. Maxie pursues a magical life. After the former librarian published two guides to excellent nonfiction books, Library Lin’s Guide to Superlative Nonfiction and Library Lin’s Biographies, Autobiographies, and Memoirs, both featured in Booklist, she ventured into paranormal women’s fiction. Her first novel, The Robins Nest, the first in The Whippoorwill Gap series, is set in the city of Whippoorwill Gap, North Carolina where faeries cavort alongside the human residents. When she’s not writing, L.C. bakes goodies and takes walks in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains with her husband Roger and their captivating canine, Dusty Marie.

The Robins Nest
Available Now


When her life stalls out, wealth is cold comfort. Will a whimsical purchase awaken this lost woman’s dormant magic?
Harper Wood has never found herself. Depressed and listless after her controlling husband’s death, the retired community college professor vows she won’t play second fiddle to a man again. And when she discovers a run-down bookstore in need of some TLC, she believes it’s the perfect place to start over… until she finds out it’s already occupied by faeries.
Resentful at first at how they’re always interfering in her business, Harper grows to love the enchanted cohabitants of her literary endeavor. But a shocking family secret throws her world into a spin, and her fair folk friends’ attempts to help could cause a whole lot of trouble.
Can Harper sort through fae magic to finally find the place she belongs?
The Robins Nest is the cozy first book in the Whippoorwill Gap Fantasies paranormal women’s fiction series. If you like found families, humorous moments, and sweet small towns, then you’ll adore L.C. Maxie’s tea-and-cake-laden tale.
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