In the wake of her thrilling past as a theater student, restaurant hostess, nurse aide, and newspaper writer, Carrie Anne Noble now crafts enchanting fiction for teens and adults. Her debut novel The Mermaid’s Sister won the 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award for Young Adult Fiction and the 2016 Realm Award for Book of the Year. Her other books include YA fantasies entitled The Gold-Son and Gretchen and the Bear. Carrie lives in the Pennsylvania mountains, where she enjoys taking walks, frolicking with her half-Corgi, and hosting the occasional mad tea party.
Favorite authors: Mervyn Peake, Neil Gaiman, Catherine Cookson, Maggie Stiefvater, Jane Austen, Christina Rossetti, and J.R.R. Tolkien
Favorite things: Star Wars, hedgehogs, fairy tales, naps, and cheese.
The Gingerbread Queen
From the author of The Mermaid's Sister, an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Winner for Young Adult Fiction and winner of the Realm Award for Book of the Year!
Once upon a time, Gretel defeated the witch of the gingerbread cottage and saved Hansel. Now, she must face what the witch left behind...
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The Springborn
"A delightful adventure, perfect for fairytale lovers of all ages. Noble paints alluring scenes with soulful characters that will keep you reading late into the night." —Laura L. Zimmerman, author of the Banshee Song Series
An 1880’s coal town is no place for a girl with antlers.
Once upon a winter’s day, a childless miner and his wife find baby Sabella in a mysterious basket. When she suddenly grows a pair of silvery gray antlers, they hide her from the world in embarrassment and fear.
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Like Silk Breathing
February 1900
One winter night during a bout of melancholy, the misunderstood Silence “Tom” Apollyon tries to drown himself on a lonely stretch of beach in Norfolk. A stranger, Theodore Harper, drags him safely from the water—not that Tom wants to be saved. Theo, though, is a selkie, a being who has no trouble fishing him out of water.
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Then in a Twinkling
How far would you go for love?
London, 1812.
An escapade, a caper, an outrageous Christmas courtship…Oliver Angel will do whatever it takes to win the heart of his chosen lady. The first time he met Dinah Bishop she turned her pistol on him, but instead of his head, Dinah’s ball struck the softest part of his heart. Oliver is determined to make Dinah his own, but there’s one small problem…
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When thief-on-the-run Ashleen O'Shea flees famine-stricken Ireland for Texas with four orphans in tow, she must entrust her safety to lone wolf, Garret MacQuade. Since the day when outlaws ravaged Garret's family homestead, he has shunned attachments, pouring his passion into his paintings of the unforgiving western wilderness. But as Garret braves the dangerous trail with Ashleen and the children, his heart begins to thaw. When evil forces threaten, will he ride away or make a home with this patchwork family he’s come to love?
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