Wine for Roses by Emily O’Malley Liu

Description

A garden. A curse. And a love rooted in something deeper than magic.

In Wine for Roses, Emily O’Malley Liu cultivates a lush, atmospheric romantasy where beauty and danger intertwine beneath tangled vines. Ethan Keating Mendoza knows roses better than anything—they’ve shaped his life, his work, and his connection to his hedge witch father’s legacy.

There’s just one problem.

Ethan has no magic of his own.

When he’s hired to restore the long-abandoned Kilbride estate garden, he’s determined to prove himself. But the roses haven’t bloomed in decades, and the grounds seem to resist every effort to bring them back to life. Something in the soil is wrong. Something is watching.

And then there’s Louis.

The estate’s enigmatic trustee is bound to the garden by a cruel and bloodthirsty curse—one that ties his fate to the land itself. Despite the danger, Ethan finds himself drawn to him. What begins as wary cooperation slowly blossoms into something tender, fragile, and fiercely worth protecting.

But the garden has its own will.

As Ethan digs deeper into the estate’s secrets, he realizes that saving the roses may mean confronting a magic far older and more dangerous than he ever imagined. And saving Louis may cost him everything.

Lyrical, haunting, and full of quiet yearning, Wine for Roses is a slow-burn romance steeped in gothic atmosphere, where love takes root in the most unlikely soil—and refuses to wither.

Book Details
Author: Emily O’Malley Liu
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: April 14, 2026
ISBN: 1970458054