Sorcery and Small Magics

Leovander Loveage treats magic the way he treats everything else: reckless with the small stuff, careful to avoid the one kind of powerful magic he refuses to touch. His polar opposite, the grumpy and disciplined Sebastian Grimm, is the last person he'd choose to be magically bound to, but an accident leaves the two of them stuck together until they can find a cure. Chasing rumors of a sorcerer who can undo curses takes them into the Unquiet Wood, a forest thick with monsters and outlaws, where breaking the curse means Leo confronting the depths of the magic he's spent his life avoiding. Maiga Doocy's cozy, slow-burn debut turns a mismatched-rivals road trip into a gentle coming-of-age story about family, power, and learning to trust someone you can't get away from.