Away From Whipplethorn Books

Tiny fairies. Huge adventure. Matilda Whipplethorn is about to get what she?s always wanted, and it?s a bad thing. Being a babysitter isn?t much of a dream for the average thirteen-year-old, but Matilda is anything but average. She?s half a centimeter tall, invisible to the human eye, and hearing-impaired. Her mother won?t let her forget any of that. So for Matilda, adventures are in short supply. Finally agreeing to let Matilda take some responsibility, her mother gives her a list of emergency procedures for babysitting. The only problem; humans aren?t on the list. Minutes into her first job, watching her sister and an obnoxious neighbor, humans appear in isolated Whipplethorn Manor. They tear her home, the fireplace mantel, right off the wall of Whipplethorn and Matilda?s afternoon babysitting job goes long term. When the mantel ends up on display in an antique mall, the security that Matilda always took for granted is gone. She can lock the doors, but that doesn?t keep the kids in or spriggans and the fly-eating phalanx fairies out. Matilda?s up for an adventure, if only she could hear it coming.

~From USA Today Bestselling Author A.W. Hartoin~ Some people are destined for a quiet life. Matilda Whipplethorn is not one of those people. On a fine summer day, Matilda’s adventurous life begins; inside a dog’s snout.

Another day. Another disaster. After surviving a kidnapping and battling with spriggans, Matilda Whipplethorn finds her life in a suburban human house pretty boring. She's been excluded from school because of her fire-making abilities and her former friends are afraid of her. Salvation comes in the form of a life-threatening illness. Her tutor, Miss Penrose, needs a medication and there's only one place to get it, the spriggans. Matilda heads back to the antique mall to save Miss Penrose even though it just might cost her everything.

Paris isn’t for lovers. It’s for fighters. Matilda Whipplethorn thought her mission would be simple. She’d get the cure for Miss Penrose and get out, but nothing is simple in Paris. The fairy revolution is heating up, not cooling down as the Whipplethorns were told. Navigating the city comes with unexpected dangers, blood-thirsty rebels, tyrannical royalists, and monsters of all kinds. The Vermillion clan holds the cure and they’re in hiding. Every time Matilda asks a Parisian fairy about the Vermillion, she becomes their enemy in a city that is now all enemies and no allies. Now time is running out, and Miss Penrose is fading fast. If Matilda doesn’t find the Vermillion, all the trouble will be for nothing.

~From USA Today Bestselling Author A.W. Hartoin~ Matilda Whipplethorn is feeling very unlucky. It’s only because she is. Matilda got the family to Vienna, but no farther. Her parents are missing in action, so she’s in charge. Now she’s hiding in plain sight. Plain sight means being a maid in St. Stephen’s Cathedral, battling tiny trolls, and avoiding a certain valet. She could fall in love with the snowy cobbled streets and a surprising musician, but the revolution in France is making its way into Austria and the Viennese fairies are panicking. Matilda might change the course of history if only she could use the power she’s been forced to hide.

All Matilda Whipplethorn’s roads lead to Rome. Matilda went from the bottom of Viennese society to the very top. Now everyone knows she’s a kindler and she’s become a target for fairies who want to exploit the tenuous situation in France. Being famous was never Matilda’s goal. She still has a job to do and being a princess had better not get in the way. Her parents remain in the hands of the French rebellion and the royal family is imprisoned in the Conciergerie in Paris. Iris must be made a cardinal and they have a new family to protect. There’s only one fairy they can turn to and he’s in The Eternal City of Rome. Pope Joyous can intervene in affairs of state. But will he?