Wicked Endeavors

by Kamilah Cole

Perfect for fans of The Shadows Between Us and Powerless, this high stakes romantasy follows a vengeful teen who cons her way into an elite society of tyrannical witches. But her warring feelings for two people—an enemy prince and her childhood friend—could ruin everything.

Caya was once the ward of Coventry’s royal family…until they were killed by the three witch Houses that now rule the peninsula.

Now eighteen, Caya plans to infiltrate the witches' glittering world to enact justice. With the help of a mysterious benefactor, she adopts the persona of Marisol Vinyet, a disarmingly beautiful aristocrat. As Marisol, she'll attend the annual Coronet, a cutthroat social season during which witches increase their power by binding new members to their Houses. The Coronet will draw even the prince of neighboring Domingo—Tomás Castellan—to the peninsula just in time for “Marisol” to kill him. After all, his family set the witches upon Coventry in the first place.

But Tomás is more charming than Caya ever anticipated. Worse, her estranged childhood friend, Bas Arroyo, is the prince’s protector, and she struggles to control her complicated feelings for him.

To take down the witches from within, Caya will have to keep both her identity and her desperate heart under Although she’s made herself a weapon, she might be the one to bleed.

Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Romantasy, Historical Fiction, Witches, Young Adult Fantasy

336 pages, Hardcover

Expected publication September 8, 2026

About the author

Kamilah Cole is a USA Today & national indie bestselling Jamaican-American author, who has been nominated for a Dragon Award, a Lambda Award, a Lodestar Award, and an Astounding Award. She worked as a writer and entertainment editor at Bustle for four years, and her nonfiction has appeared in Marie Claire and Seventeen. A graduate of New York University, Kamilah lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she’s usually playing Kingdom Hearts for the hundredth time, quoting early SpongeBob SquarePants episodes, or crying her way through Zuko’s redemption arc in Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Reviews

[rachel x]

"A romantasy duology set in a Spanish Renaissance-inspired kingdom, about a vengeful teen who cons her way into a high society of elite witches, only for her revenge to be threatened by her warring feelings for both a manipulative enemy prince and the stoic childhood friend who betrayed her, pitched as a love letter to the power of Black women's anger."

[Duchess of Snark]

This probably won’t be out for a very long time but I have already decided I need it injected directly into my retinas thank you.

[Rayne]

"a vengeful teen who cons her way into a high society of elite witches"

SIGN ME UP

[Kamilah Cole · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's that time again! Wicked Endeavors ARCs have come in, which means early reads will come soon. I wrote this book, and I am very proud of it, so I am giving it five stars. But I am also giving you a list of content warnings so you can read responsibly.

-Violent thoughts
-Violent acts (knife violence, threats with weapons, bleeding from an arrow wound)
-Violent fantasies (slit throats, dead bodies, stabbings)
-A hunting scene (animals are magically created, and none are killed or injured on the page, but still)
-Lots of talk of blood and death
-PG-13 kisses
-Character deaths (past)
-Child death (past)

Take care of yourselves, and I hope you enjoy this story. <3

[erinlecountluvr · Rating 5 out of 5]

KAMILAH COLE UR FUCKING MINDDDDD

full rtc but top tier as always