Thistlemarsh

By Moorea Corrigan
** Publication Date 21 April 2026 **
5 stars




A little bit of fantasy and the fairy world brings us a wonderful story about a mortal woman the the Faerie man she enlists to help her heal her ancestral home.


Mouse is a nurse. She tended to those torn by the war, one of them being her brother Roger. Mouse is the child of an Irish gardener and an English Lady. Lady Dewhurst would have been her mother, had she lived. Her father was brought to the family home of Thistlemarsh, where Mouse and her brother would be raised alongside their cousin Bertie. 


Only Bertie’s father was a wicked man. Never once treating his sister’s children as anything close to his own, and expecting their father, his own brother-in-law, to tend to the gardens. Mouse grew up learning from her father. Roger and Bertie attended Eton, only Roger left after a scuffle with Bertie’s cousin Carlyle.


Eventually the war took Bertie and most of Roger’s mind. Lord Dewhurst passed, and Mouse was left the heir to Thistlemarsh, with strings attached. Those strings would leave the whole estate and inheritance to Carlyle unless Mouse could meet the expectations and demands of the will. 


In comes Thornwood to try to help Mouse right the wrongs, or so she thinks. Taken in by his beauty and magic, Mouse agrees to terms that might not save her after all.


What a wonderful story of Faeries in the modern world. The legends of the Faerie King and his place in rural England is truly a work of magic. There is simply nothing better than escaping into this make-believe world. Mouse is a both a heroine and a train-wreck in alternating chapters. Her strength and will and tenderness are perfect in every way. Thornwood is exactly what you’d expect a faerie to be, part wicked trickery and part beautiful all in one. The relationship between he and Mouse has chemistry from their first pages together.


There are books that stay with you long after you have closed them. Thistlemarsh will definitely take that spot.