West of Wicked

A dark, sexy, and twisted reimagining of The Wizard of Oz from USA Today bestselling author Nikki St. Crowe

No one is safe on the yellow brick road.

Dorothy Gale doesn’t know where she came from.

When a cyclone tears through the night, Dorothy wakes to find herself far from home in the strange, cursed land of Oz.

Desperate to find her way back, Dorothy sets off on the yellow brick road to find a wizard and stumbles on a man beaten and bloody, tied to a pole in a cornfield. Not unlike the scarecrows on the Kansas farm.

The mysterious stranger, Rook, joins Dorothy. He’s ridiculously handsome, endlessly charming, and somehow understands Dorothy in a way no one ever has. But . . .

Nothing and no one is what they seem in the cursed land of Oz.

Tropes:

Wizard of Oz Retelling

Forbidden Love

Rambunctious Dog

Journey of Self Discovery

Hidden Identity

Witchy

Villain gets the girl

Cyclone Shenanigans

Murder

Morally Grey Characters

Hot and Equally Evil Brothers

Spice:

2/5

Author: Nikki St. Crowe

Fantasy romance, Romance

Published on 8 Oct 2026 by Pan Macmillan.