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Celia Lake

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Celia Lake spends her days as a librarian in the Boston (MA) metro area, and her nights and weekends at home happily writing, reading, and researching.

Born and raised in Massachusetts to British parents, she naturally embraced British spelling, classic mysteries, and the Oxford comma before she learned there were any other options.

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Average rating: 4.24 · 3,195 ratings · 409 reviews · 46 distinct works • Similar authors

	Outcrossing (Mysterious Charm, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Carry On (Mysterious Powers #1) 4.23 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pastiche (Charms of Albion #1) 4.08 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Goblin Fruit (Mysterious Charm, #2) 4.29 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fossil Door (Mysterious Powers #2) 4.22 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eclipse (Mysterious Powers #3) 4.20 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wards of the Roses (Mysterious Charm, #4) 4.19 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bound for Perdition (Mysterious Arts #1) 4.34 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Magician's Hoard (Mysterious Charm, #3) 4.08 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fool's Gold (Mysterious Powers #4) 4.26 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Claiming the Tower is here! Hereswith and Bess didn’t set out to change the world, but by the end of the book, they’re on their way to doing that.

It’s a f/f (sapphic) romance set in 1854, at the beginning of Hereswith’s time on Albion’s Council. If you’ve read the Mysterious Fields trilogy, you’ve seen her (and a tiny bit of Bess and Hereswith’s later husband, Galahad) later in

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The Norman Conquest

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“It’s the kind of thing an author who didn’t know what the real thing looks like would put in a novel.”
― Celia Lake, Carry On

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“the sort of hug that was half an octopus with ambitions.”
― Celia Lake, Upon a Summer's Day

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“She was neatly dressed, in her uniform, her hair and cap pinned in place by whatever arcane methods nurses used. If it had been an ordeal, it seemed to have been an unnaturally tidy and well-behaved one.”
― Celia Lake, Carry On

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