Book + Candle Bundles

Your book of choice + an Authentic Books Exclusive 4 oz. Candle.

Our candles are hand-poured and created with only eco friendly and non-toxic materials and fragrances. 

What's Inside: 

• Hardcover or paperback copy of the book
• Custom bookmark
• Authors note (If available)
• Some will come with a signed bookplate

Book Choices:

• The London Seance Society by Sarah Penner
• A spellbinding tale about two daring women who hunt for truth and justice in the perilous art of conjuring the dead.
• Goodreads: 3.50/5 rating score.
• Scent: Sweet Bergamot + Dried Florals
• The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore
  
• Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never thinks of herself as lonely...but still she looks forward to that time every day when old curmudgeon Arthur McLachlan comes to browse the shelves and cheerfully insult her.
• Goodreads: 3.90/5 rating score.
• Scent: Palo Santo + White Tea
• Happy Place by Emily Henry
• Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now—for reasons they’re still not discussing—they don’t.
• Goodreads: 4.13/5 rating score
• Scent: Coastal Pine + Spiced Clove

• The Senator's Wife by Liv Constantine
• After a tragic chain of events led to the deaths of their spouses two years ago, D.C. philanthropist Sloane Chase and Senator Whit Montgomery are finally starting to move on. The horrifying ordeal drew them together, and now they're ready to settle down again—with each other.
• Goodreads: 3.78/5 rating score. 
  
• Scent: Eucalyptus + Cedar Musk Lavender

• Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong
• Every year, thousands in the kingdom of Talin will flock to its capital twin cities, San-Er, where the palace hosts a set of games. For those confident enough in their ability to jump between bodies, competitors across San-Er fight to the death to win unimaginable riches.
• Goodreads: 3.59/5 rating score.
• Scent: Spicy Blood Orange + Saffron
• The Only One Left by Riley Sager
• Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.
• Goodreads: 4.19/5 rating score.
• Scent: Black Sea Salt + Eucalyptus
• Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
•  Sadie Montgomery never saw what was coming . . . Literally! One minute she’s celebrating the biggest achievement of her life—placing as a finalist in the North American Portrait Society competition—the next, she’s lying in a hospital bed diagnosed with a “probably temporary” condition known as face blindness.
• Goodreads: 4.04/5 rating score.
• Scent: Georgetown Spring + Sweet Delusion
• Love Wager + Mr. Wrong Number by Lynn Painter
• Love Wager - Hallie Piper is turning over a new leaf. After belly-crawling out of a hotel room (hello, rock bottom), she decides it’s time to become a full-on adult.
• Goodreads (Love Wager): 3.93/5 rating score.
• Mr. Wrong Number - Things get textual when a steamy message from a random wrong number turns into an anonymous relationship in this hilarious rom-com by Lynn Painter.
• Goodreads (Mr. Wrong number): 3.72/5 rating score.
• Scent: Mountain Florals + Fresh Air
• We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride, Jo Piazza
  
• Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. As adults, they remain as close as sisters, though their lives have taken different directions. Jen married young, and after years of trying, is finally pregnant. Riley pursued her childhood dream of becoming a television journalist and is poised to become one of the first Black female anchors of the top news channel in their hometown of Philadelphia.
  
• Goodreads: 4.08/5 rating score.
  
• Scent: Lavender + Oakmoss 
• Things We Do In The Dark by Jennifer Hillier
• When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom—covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind her—she knows she'll be charged with murder. But as bad as this looks, it's not what worries her the most. With the unwanted media attention now surrounding her, it's only a matter of time before someone from her long hidden past recognizes her and destroys the new life she's worked so hard to build, along with any chance of a future.
• Goodreads: 3.97/5 rating score.
• • Scent: Cashmere Musk
• Twisted Love Story by Samantha Downing
• Wes and Ivy are madly in love. They've never felt anything like it. It's the kind of romance people write stories about. But what kind of story? Because when it's good, it's great. Flowers. Grand gestures. Deep meaningful conversations where the whole world disappears. When it's bad, it's really bad. Vengeful fights. Damaged property. Arrest warrants. But their vicious cycle of catastrophic breakups and head-over-heels reconnections needs to end fast. Because suddenly, Wes and Ivy have a common enemy--and she's a detective.
• Goodreads: 3.25/5 rating score
• Scent: Fresh PURE + Ginger Spice
• Under The Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
• Welcome to Charon's Crossing. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead. But even in death he’s not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days.
  
• Goodreads: 4.17/5 rating score. 
• Scent: Chai Latte
• Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan 
• Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasmen and Josiah Wade found that love alone couldn’t solve or save everything. It couldn’t save their marriage. Yasmen wasn’t prepared for how her life fell apart, but she is finally starting to find joy again. She and Josiah have found a new rhythm, co-parenting their two kids and running a thriving business together. Yet like magnets, they’re always drawn back to each other, and now they’re beginning to wonder if they’re truly ready to let go of everything they once had.
  
• Goodreads: 4.38/5 rating score. 
• Scent: Black Honey Vanilla 
• The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith
• Greta James's meteoric rise to indie stardom was hard-won. Before she graced magazine covers and sold out venues, she spent her girlhood strumming her guitar in the family garage. Her first fan was her mother, Helen, whose face shone bright in the dusty downtown bars where she got her start—but not everyone encouraged Greta to follow her dreams. While many daydream about a crowd chanting their name, her father, Conrad, saw only a precarious life ahead for his daughter.
  
• Goodreads: 3.88/5 rating score. 
• Scent: Marine Agave
• Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout 
• As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the next several months, it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea.
  
• Goodreads: 3.96/5 rating score.
• Scent: Sweet Coastal Breeze 
• The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh
  
• It started with their ancestor Oanh who dared to leave her marriage for true love—so a fearsome Vietnamese witch cursed Oanh and her descendants so that they would never find love or happiness, and the Duong women would give birth to daughters, never sons.​
  
• Goodreads: 3.64/5 rating score. 
• Scent: Citron + Mandarin