The Only Purple House in Town

For readers of The House in the Cerulean Sea comes a fantastical story of found family, love, and acceptance from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Ann Aguirre. When Iris Collins unexpectedly inherits a house from her great aunt, her failed B&B becomes a haven for other magical lost souls.

Iris Collins is the messy one in her family. Her sisters are all wildly successful while she can’t balance her budget for a single month. That’s how she ends up in debt to her roommates. Iris could kindly be described as a chaos bunny, as none of her plans ever work out. So of course when she unexpectedly inherits a house from her great aunt, her plan to turn it into a B&B fails. She winds up renting rooms like a Victorian spinster, collecting other lost souls...not all of them “human.”

Eli Reese grew up as the nerdy outcast in school, but now is wildly successful by anyone’s standards. He got rich designing apps, but he’s never had the same luck in finding a real community or people who understand him. Over the years, he’s never forgotten his first crush, so when he spots her at a café, he takes it as a sign. Only he gets sucked into the Iris-verse, and somehow ends up renting a room instead of saying they knew each other in school. As the days pass, Eli becomes enchanted by the misfit boarders staying in the house and even more so by Iris. Could Eli have finally found a person and a place to call “home”? In a magical town like St. Claire, anything is possible…