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    Star's Crossing
    Star's Crossing
    Madeleine_Graves
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    • Reads
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    Madeleine_Graves
    Complete
    Complete, First published Sep 16, 2018
    {WATTY'S 2020 WINNER & EDITOR'S PICK.} 
        
        Hopeless romantic and aspiring writer Mare Atwood has fallen madly in love with her childhood correspondent. There's only one catch-she doesn't know who he is. When the beaus of Star's Crossing return from boarding school to begin the courting season, Mare is determined to uncover the identity of her writer, flout her family's intentions of orchestrating an advantageous marriage, and procure the life of writing and romance she's always sought.  
        
        But as in the tales she so adores, it won't be easy. 
        
        Galas, masquerades, picnics, and hunts-alongside an old friend, a former teacher, and an unlikely ally, Mare delves into an investigation that leaves her torn between three clever, deceptive, and wealthy young bachelors. If Mare can confirm which is her writer and claim his hand before the courting season ends, she'll have her wish: the love of her life, a valuable marriage, and a future of writing romance. 
        
        But with the eyes of Star's Crossing upon her, a business plot forcing invisible hands, and the unwillingness of her writer to come forward-Mare's future may not end in triumph, but tragedy.
        
        Set against the gilded Victorian backdrop of coastal Connecticut and lush with pre-war luxury, fans of Jane Austen, Margaret Mitchell, and Louisa May Alcott are sure to enjoy this lighthearted, lyrical novel of young love, independence, and identity.
        
        #1 Literary 
        #1 YA Romance 
        #1 Victorian 
        #1 Lyrical
        #8 General Fiction
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    Table of contentsLast updated Aug 06, 2021
    • Dear Reader,
    • The First Letter
    • 1: The Courting Season Begins
    • 2. Girls in Storms Should Not Be Trusted
    • 3: Books Make Fine Hostages (And Better Bribes)
    • 4: Of Rumors and Roses
    • 5: Lavish and Irreverent
    • 6: A Farewell So Mysterious
    • 7: Meant to be Broken
    • 8: The Blood of Enemies
    • 9: The Devils Are All Here
    • 10: Wine is Thicker than Water
    • 11: The Chase Begins
    • 12: A Player Yet
    • 13: Too Curious, Too Clever
    • 14: Courageously Onward
    • 15: The Truest Masks
    • No Chapter, Headed to CA Camp Fire. Please Read!
    • 16: The Heart, Once Compromised
    • 17: Our Doubts Are Traitors
    • 18: The Girl and the Wolf
    • 19: Champagne, Like Stars
    • 20: Not Entirely Proper
    • 21: No Decadent Vice
    • 22: Of Our Own Making
    • 23: A Sundial in the Shade
    • 24: A Pitied Creature
    • 25: Another Voice Silenced
    • 26: This is the Game
    • 27: Mysteries
    • 28: The Fall
    • 29: Something Wicked This Way Comes
    • 30: In Which All is Fair
    • 31: By Her Name
    • 32: Unrequited
    • 33: Thatcher House
    • 34: The World a World Away
    • 35: A Coward and a Selfish Man
    • 36: Prey and a Fruitless Chase
    • 37: Hers
    • 38: The Girl She Was
    • 39: No Map, No Compass
    • 40: A More Dangerous Path
    • 41: A Courter of Fate
    • 42: Teach Me to Bite
    • 43: This is Surrender
    • 44: What a Man
    • 45: Daring, Brave, and Beautiful
    • 46: The Long Journey
    • 47: All Inferno Requires
    • 48: The Singular Lover of Remaining Alone
    • 49: Atwoods, Drama, and Masks
    • 50: Leave to Fall or Fly
    • 51: Knives and Poison Over Tea
    • 52: Only a Mystery
    • 53: He Who Has Forsook His Throne
    • 54: There is Time
    • 55: A Stone in One's Path
    • 56: Knights and Queens
    • 57: A Quiet Dreamer
    • 58: Long Wished; Long Awaited
    • 59: Every Ocean She Had Not Crossed
    • 60: This Life, or the Next
    • 61: Possibility, Endless
    • 62: More Things in Heaven and Earth
    • 63: Like Stardust
    • 64: A Good Small Thing
    • 65: Not a Word
    • 66: All of Them, Together
    • 67: A Thing So Fragile
    • 68: I Did, Once
    • 69: Where it All Began
    • 70: The Words
    • Partnership Bonus Chapter: PANIC
    • Epilogue 1: From Far-Away
    • Epilogue 2: Moments Not Spoken Of
    • Epilogue 3: For Crowds or Pages
    • Epilogue 4: A Page, a Portal
    • Epilogue 5: Every Word
    • Epilogue 6: In the Dark
    • Epilogue 7: The Dream
    • Epilogue 8: Fox, All Mischief
    • Epilogue 9: A Sky Falling
    • Epilogue 10: For One Forever
    • Epilogue 11: Ours
    • Epilogue 12: Mare

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    • Dear Reader,
    • The First Letter
    • 1: The Courting Season Begins
    • 2. Girls in Storms Should Not Be Trusted
    • 3: Books Make Fine Hostages (And Better Bribes)
    • 4: Of Rumors and Roses
    • 5: Lavish and Irreverent
    • 6: A Farewell So Mysterious
    • 7: Meant to be Broken
    • 8: The Blood of Enemies
    • 9: The Devils Are All Here
    • 10: Wine is Thicker than Water
    • 11: The Chase Begins
    • 12: A Player Yet
    • 13: Too Curious, Too Clever
    • 14: Courageously Onward
    • 15: The Truest Masks
    • No Chapter, Headed to CA Camp Fire. Please Read!
    • 16: The Heart, Once Compromised
    • 17: Our Doubts Are Traitors
    • 18: The Girl and the Wolf
    • 19: Champagne, Like Stars
    • 20: Not Entirely Proper
    • 21: No Decadent Vice
    • 22: Of Our Own Making
    • 23: A Sundial in the Shade
    • 24: A Pitied Creature
    • 25: Another Voice Silenced
    • 26: This is the Game
    • 27: Mysteries
    • 28: The Fall
    • 29: Something Wicked This Way Comes
    • 30: In Which All is Fair
    • 31: By Her Name
    • 32: Unrequited
    • 33: Thatcher House
    • 34: The World a World Away
    • 35: A Coward and a Selfish Man
    • 36: Prey and a Fruitless Chase
    • 37: Hers
    • 38: The Girl She Was
    • 39: No Map, No Compass
    • 40: A More Dangerous Path
    • 41: A Courter of Fate
    • 42: Teach Me to Bite
    • 43: This is Surrender
    • 44: What a Man
    • 45: Daring, Brave, and Beautiful
    • 46: The Long Journey
    • 47: All Inferno Requires
    • 48: The Singular Lover of Remaining Alone
    • 49: Atwoods, Drama, and Masks
    • 50: Leave to Fall or Fly
    • 51: Knives and Poison Over Tea
    • 52: Only a Mystery
    • 53: He Who Has Forsook His Throne
    • 54: There is Time
    • 55: A Stone in One's Path
    • 56: Knights and Queens
    • 57: A Quiet Dreamer
    • 58: Long Wished; Long Awaited
    • 59: Every Ocean She Had Not Crossed
    • 60: This Life, or the Next
    • 61: Possibility, Endless
    • 62: More Things in Heaven and Earth
    • 63: Like Stardust
    • 64: A Good Small Thing
    • 65: Not a Word
    • 66: All of Them, Together
    • 67: A Thing So Fragile
    • 68: I Did, Once
    • 69: Where it All Began
    • 70: The Words
    • Partnership Bonus Chapter: PANIC
    • Epilogue 1: From Far-Away
    • Epilogue 2: Moments Not Spoken Of
    • Epilogue 3: For Crowds or Pages
    • Epilogue 4: A Page, a Portal
    • Epilogue 5: Every Word
    • Epilogue 6: In the Dark
    • Epilogue 7: The Dream
    • Epilogue 8: Fox, All Mischief
    • Epilogue 9: A Sky Falling
    • Epilogue 10: For One Forever
    • Epilogue 11: Ours
    • Epilogue 12: Mare
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