The Unwritten Rules of Magic [Hardcover]

For fans ofThe Midnight LibraryandIn Five Years,The Unwritten Rules of Magicis a spellbinding novel that blends magic and memory in an unforgettable journey through love, grief, and the hidden cost of perfection across three generations of women.

Emerson Clarke cant remember a time when she felt in control. Her fathera celebrated authorwas a chaotic force until he got Alzheimers. Her mother turned to gin. And recently, her teen daughter has shut her out without explanation. If only she could arrange reality the same way she controls the stories she ghostwrites, life could be perfect.

Or so she thinks.

After her fathers funeral, Emerson steals his vintage typewriterthe one hed forbidden anyone to touchand tests its keys by typing out a frivolous wish. When it comes true the very next day, she tries another. Then, those words also spring to life. Suddenly, she becomes obsessed with using the typewriter to rewrite happiness for herself and her daughter.

But the more she shapes her real-life, the more she uncovers disturbing truths about her familys history and the unexpected cost of every story-come-true. She should destroy the typewriter, yet when her daughters secret finally emerges, Emerson is torn between paying the price for bending fate and embracing the uncertainty of an unscripted life.

HARPER ROSS has enjoyed a lifelong love affair with the dramatic story worlds in books and movies. After leaving her legal practice to raise her kids, she discovered her own creative side and began writing novels that explore friendship, family, and forgiveness. Because she also appreciates the magic in everyday lifefrom the spark of attraction to those serendipitous moments we all experienceyoull find a dash of that in her work too. When shes not at the keyboard, shes likely to be singing badly in her car, dancing in her kitchen, or walking her adorable dog, Mo. Shes also a lucky wife and mother to a lc5