This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews

Most people would think Maggie is just another 26-year-old who hasn’t found herself yet. Post-pandemic she has drifted from job to job, and is currently delivering groceries.  And, like many of us, she has escaped from a bad day at work by immersing herself in her favorite series - in her case, two fantasy novels set in the city of Kair Toren, focusing on the power struggles of eight royal families. Maggie has read them so many times she knows them as well as their reclusive author does. 

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

Dominic Salt is the caretaker of Shearwater, a remote island near Antarctica where he lives with his three children, Raff, Fen, and Orly. The island is mostly inhabited by seals but visiting researchers have created a vast seed bank – which would help the world replant if there were a natural disaster. Because the sea is rising, the island will soon be uninhabitable so the Salts, after many isolated years, will be forced to begin again somewhere on the mainland. If they really leave.