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Colleen Cowley

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Colleen Cowley writes romantic fantasy in warped real-world settings with wizards, amazing women, swoony pining and swoopy coats.

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Average rating: 4.08 · 5,268 ratings · 702 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Subversive (Clandestine Magic, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 1,958 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Radical (Clandestine Magic, #2) 4.20 avg rating — 1,115 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revolutionary (Clandestine Magic, #3) 4.07 avg rating — 969 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Opposite of Magic 3.93 avg rating — 491 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Into the Bargain: A Clandestine Magic Fairy Tale 4.09 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clandestine (Clandestine Magic, #0.5) 3.73 avg rating — 64 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clandestine Magic (Books 1-3): A romantic fantasy series box set 4.40 avg rating — 43 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Interlude: A Clandestine Magic Short Story 4.03 avg rating — 38 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Contrariwise 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clandestine Magic, Books 1-3: A Romantic Fantasy Series Box Set by Colleen Cowley (Goodreads Author), Leanne Woodward (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Down the rabbit hole (for eight years)

This is the problem with wild ideas: They tend to eat up your life.

I went down the rabbit hole for one of those ideas eight years ago, and I'm coming up for air now with a completed romantic fantasy trilogy. (What's been happening the past eight years? Anything I should know about?)

The Clandestine Magic series is for readers who like determined-as-heck female protagonists, problematic wizards, po Read more of this blog post »

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Published on September 27, 2020 14:45 • Tags: alternative-history, fantasy, gaslamp-fantasy, romance, romantic-fantasy, strong-female-characters, wizards, women-s-rights

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“I don’t know.” She frowned. “It’s exactly like a word on the tip of your tongue or a memory just beyond your grasp. Maddening.”
― Colleen Cowley, Subversive

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“If you narrow someone’s options to nurse, schoolteacher, secretary or wife,” Beatrix said, “you’ll get Bettys who aim their ambition at powerful men, or in this case the son of one.”
― Colleen Cowley, Radical

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