SHIP DATES: estimated to ship in May

Monthly collectable: If We Were Villains page overlay

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This month's Fox & Wit adult subscription book has an an exclusive hardcover case and an exclusive dust jacket designed by Star Swift. There will be end pages with character renderings.

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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark… and that 'something' is magic.

HELSINGØR, 1536.

Ophelia is a disgraced handmaid to the queen, the cast-off lover of Prince Hamlet.

She is also a witch, and a good one at that. And she can see that Denmark is rotting from the inside out, afflicted by dark magic.

WITTENBERG, 1536.

Hamlet is a useless son, a failed heir. He is the prince of a nation about to fight a war they won't win.

He doesn't know about magic, but if he did he would use it to destroy their enemies—no matter the consequences.

As Hamlet and Ophelia find themselves increasingly torn apart, they must decide: how much are they willing to sacrifice in order to save Denmark?

And, by the end of it all, will they be beyond saving?

 

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SHIP DATES: estimated to ship in April. Exact dates TBA.

Monthly collectable: quarterly collectable wood bookmark

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This month's Fox & Wit adult subscription book has an an exclusive hardcover case and an exclusive dust jacket designed by Felix (@felixgreen83)

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obsession and the occult culminate in this why-done-it. When a student witnesses the principal's daughter she's infatuated with commit a murder, she is elated when the campus princess asks her to help solve the mysterious disappearance of said murdered student.

Features: queer cast, neurodivergent rep, and a soft-magic system

 

TRIGGER WARNINGS-

references and themes to alcohol/drug use, blood,

confrontation to abuse, death, emotional abuse, escalating violence,

gaslighting/manipulation, gore, lifechanging injury, murder, corpses, visions

about traumatic events, panic attacks, paranormal/occult content, self-harm,

sexual references, suicide ideation, and trauma.

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SHIP DATES: estimated to ship in March. Exact dates TBA.

Monthly collectable: quarterly collectable enamel magnet designed by Blissfully Bookish. This month's themed is romantasy reader.

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This month's Fox & Wit adult subscription book has an an exclusive foiled hardcover case designed by Chiara (@grigiochiara)

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This queer enemies to lovers fantasy features morally grey characters and atmospheric writing.

On a cursed island where birds steal hearts and blades of grass cut sharper than knives, two young women driven by revenge take on solving a series of mysterious deaths.

Every winter’s first snow, a flock of silver birds descends upon Namu Island and leaves with a heart. When River’s father is taken, she seeks vengeance. But soon uncanny events unfold: islanders die in eerie ways, the woods turn green in the dead of winter, River’s brother disappears, and a strange woman turns up. To save her brother and unravel the island’s mystery, River will be cast into an unexpected alliance that will challenge her beliefs, trust, and love.

 

TRIGGER WARNINGS- Death, Death of a Baby (Stillborn off page, graphic descriptions of body), Death of a parent, Death of a child (Mild descriptions of body), Animal Death (Graphic, mostly birds and insects), Gore (Graphic wound and injury descriptions), Amputation, Spiders (Very graphic), Transphobia and Misgendering

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SHIP DATES: estimated to ship in February. Exact dates TBA.

Monthly collectable: quarterly collectable non fandom wood bookmark.

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This month's Fox & Wit adult subscription book has an exclusive dust jacket designed by Allie @nearixxar)and an exclusive hardcover case

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an indentured political assassin and a top class assassin for hire meet at the home of a political target. They meet again at the scene of brutal murder, the latest in a string of unsolved cases terrifying their city. They work together, even as their loyalties and debts force them to keep secrets from each other.

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SHIP DATES: estimated to ship in January. Exact dates TBA.

Monthly collectable: quarterly collectable page overlay inspired by Legends and Latte.

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This month's Fox & Wit adult subscription book has an exclusive dust jacket designed by @ashluhley and an exclusive foiled hardcover case

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A young witch suffers a loss and becomes a reckless. Her father, worried about her behavior, has bargained for her to become an assistant to demon doctor who is cursed to take the form of a beast. 

This is a witchy and gas lamp Beauty and the Beast retelling.

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SHIP DATES: due to the various winter holidays in December that our team celebrates, this will be a late December shipment box. Estimated: December 26th through January 7th

Monthly collectable: quarterly wood bookmark

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This month's Fox & Wit adult subscription book has an exclusive dust jacket designed by Kara Mains @cheshireslink.art and an exclusive foiled hardcover case

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Only London, run by the University, is safe in a world under monstrous threat. The University grants safety only to those who earn their keep. When the University opens admissions to the whole country in anticipation of an increased threat, a young man must give up on his dream and discover what's more important: integrity or survival.

TW: Homophobia, substance abuse, religious trauma, gore, death, violence, body horror, suicide, ableism, physical and mental abuse

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SHIP DATES: estimated November 16th through 22nd.

Monthly collectable: quarterly dagger and floral pin designed by @c.e.illo (Christin Engelberth)

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When Phoebe, goddess of the moon, is killed by the knights of the sun god, Hyperion, all who follow her are branded heretics. With Phoebe gone, the souls of the dead are no longer ferried to the underworld, and instead linger on as shades who feast on the blood of the living.

Raef is a child of the night. He lives in the shadows, on scraps, eking out a meager existence as a thief. But when an ornate box is sequestered in the Temple of Hyperion, the chance of a big score proves too great to resist. What he finds within propels him on an odyssey across the sea and back again, altering the course of his life forever.
Seth is a knight of the sun. But unlike the others of his order, the fire of Hyperion only brings him pain. He believes he deserves this penance, exacted for his unknown origins. Tasked with recovering the contents of the box, Seth must also venture beyond the horizon if he's to learn the truth about himself.

In a dying world divided by the greed of those in power, Raef and Seth find their destinies intertwined—and learn they might have more in common than they ever imagined.

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SHIP DATES: October 30th through November 12th.

Monthly collectable: If We Were Villains inspired bookish charm designed by Blissfully Bookish Tees

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Octobers's adult book a Reylo inspired East Asian fantasy that is a delicious slow burn, enemies--quite literally-- to lovers filled with lush world building and political intrigue.

Two enemies whose people are at war must form an uneasy alliance because their combined magic is all that will save a much greater force and threat from consuming their world. But can they put aside old wounds and battle scars or will their light and dark magic tear each other apart?

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SHIP DATES: September 25th through October 8th

Monthly collectable: A Taste of Iron and Gold page overlay

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SHIP DATES: August 21st through Sept 3rd

Monthly collectable: fandom neutral wood bookmark

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SHIP DATES: July 3rd through 16th

Monthly collectable: next dagger and floral pin designed by @c.e.illo

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SHIP DATES: June 28th through July 7th

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SHIP DATES: May 18th-26th

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SHIP DATES: April 10th-21st

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SHIP DATES: March 27th through April 7th

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SHIP DATES: February 20th through March 3rd

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SHIP DATES: January 30th through February 5th

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SHIP DATES: December 27th through January 9th

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As a half-goddess possessing magic, Yaga is used to living on her own, her prior entanglements with mortals having led to heartbreak. She mostly keeps to her hut in the woods, where those in need of healing seek her out, even as they spread rumors about her supposed cruelty and wicked spells. But when her old friend Anastasia—now the wife of the tsar, and suffering from a mysterious illness—arrives in her forest desperate for her protection, Yaga realizes the fate of all of Russia is tied to Anastasia’s. Yaga must step out of the shadows to protect the land she loves.

As she travels to Moscow, Yaga witnesses a sixteenth century Russia on the brink of chaos. Tsar Ivan—soon to become Ivan the Terrible—grows more volatile and tyrannical by the day, and Yaga believes the tsaritsa is being poisoned by an unknown enemy. But what Yaga cannot know is that Ivan is being manipulated by powers far older and more fearsome than anyone can imagine.

 

SHIP DATES: nov 28th through dec 9th

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SHIP DATES: oct 18th through 28th

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SHIP DATES: September 19th through 30th

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SHIP DATES: August 22nd to 31st   The publication date for this book has been pushed back until September 6th by the publishers. The new ship date for boxes will be September 6th through 16th

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SHIP DATES: July 25th through August 5th

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SHIP DATES: June 27th through July 8th

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Boxes will ship  May  23rd through June 3rd

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This month is about two strangers who become friends over their course of their letter correspondences. But something happens and the two become enemies. In an arranged marriage,  the two must learn how to co-exist despite their burning  hatred towards each other.

This is a witchy fantasy book! The wife demands that she be allowed to attend university and in return, she promises she'll be less hostile towards her husband. However, women witches simply do not attend university so she must learn to navigate a new environment that is determines to break her will to learn. Meanwhile, her husband vows to protect her without overstepping into her freedom and independence.

This book  is filled with all our favorite tropes: friends to enemies to lovers and forced proximity. And  is full of heat!

content warning:

This is a level 5 spice book, which means it contains a lot of explicit sex scenes.

Boxes will ship April 25th  through May 6th

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For years, she has lived isolated from her family, not really a princess, almost a nun, in order to avoid the same fate as her sisters: to be married off in the name of politics. But when she discovers that her sister suffers abuse at the cruel hands of her husband, our heroine embarks on a series of impossible tasks to gather the help she requires to do something even more impossible: kill a prince.

Along the way, this shy, somewhat awkward “not-a-princess-almost-a-nun” collects a grave-witch whose familiar is a chicken possessed by a demon, an unfairly attractive disgraced knight, a mediocre fairy godmother, and the loyalest of dogs. Together this ragtag group of misfits will attempt to harness their unlikely skills in the name of justice (or perhaps revenge?).

From a veteran author of much loved and award-winning fiction, comes this new dark, twisted fairy tale. This novel borrows all the classic fairy tale elements such as: princes and princesses, a damsel-in-distress, an evil witch, a knight, three impossible tasks, and more magic than you can shake a stick at; and yet this novel gives us something brand new and brilliant, mixing and twisting these elements into unexpected shapes and roles. Lyrical, dream-like, and sharp as a razor, this novel will cut through you with its heartbreak, beauty, wisdom, and hope. It asks the reader to consider how far one is willing to go for family and duty, what the difference is between justice and revenge, and what to do when the thing about yourself you hate the most is precisely the thing that is needed. (Personal note from Amanda: It also features some of the best sentences I’ve read in quite a long time, including an opening-line that shot through me like an arrow. So be prepared.)

content warning:

domestic/spousal abuse, violence, a semi-graphic description of teeth-pulling, and vague mentions of cannibalism (also, for those who need to know about the pets: the dog survives)

Boxes will ship March 21- April 1st

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Fox & Wit's March adult book is from a debut traditionally published author. It's a fantasy dark academia about a group of people with powers who are fighting to receive a spot into a prestigious school. Little do they  know how high  the stakes are.

Boxes will ship february 21-march 4th

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Fox & Wit's February adult book is from an author we have featured before in the YA box, writing their first adult fantasy. This is a beautiful lyrical novel set on a magical island with spirits and magic inspired by Gaelic/Scottish lore. A bard who was banished to the mainland a decade ago is summoned home from his position teaching at a university, and returns despite his resentments and misgivings. However, when he arrives on the magical island that hurt himself so deeply, he discovers both that the island still feels irrevocably like HOME, and that things are far more dire than he could have guessed. Young girls are disappearing from their families without trace or explanation. The heiress of the clan and the bard’s childhood enemy has called him home to fulfill his role as bard and help her uncover the mysteries that might help them recover the stolen girls. Together they will face down the powerful spirits of the island, unravel secrets buried deep in their paths, and confront their own feelings.

This book is for anyone who enjoys Scottish-infused fantasy, loves a fast-paced adventure story, and appreciates the power of music. It also features a compelling rivals-to-lovers romance subplot, which is always a delight. While this is an adventure story full of wonder and magic, it is at its heart a story about the secrets that bind people, the sacrifices one is willing to make for power, and the many kinds of love that can save not only individuals but whole communities.

Boxes will ship January 24th-feb 9th

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In this debut fantasy by a WOC author, we enter a beautiful but dangerous magical realm inspired by Chinese mythology. The novel follows the trials and adventures of an intelligent but sheltered young woman who is chased from her home and must learn to fend for herself in a kingdom that must not learn of her true identity at any cost. After suffering indignity upon indignity she is given a chance to learn alongside a prince who wishes to prove he is nothing like his despotic parents, and the two build a friendship that slowly develops into more. But eventually, the young woman must leave, driven forward by the need to prove herself a capable warrior on a dangerous quest, and earn the prize that could save her home and her family. Along the way, she will have to make difficult choices, face treachery and forbidden power, and risk everything she holds dear.

This book is for those who love fantasy inspired by mythology, angsty romance, and daring adventures. It is also a book for girls who do for themselves, who make their own paths and fight their own battles and save the day all on their own, thank you very much. With beautiful thoughtful prose written in first-person, this novel explores the ways hope and determination can keep us going through the most difficult and harrowing of circumstances, and the kinds of sacrifices one must be willing to make in the name of honor and fulfilling a dream

Boxes will ship December 27th through January 7th

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This month’s adult book option takes us deep into the mountains, dark and mysterious, full of danger and secrets. In a story that is part mystery, part psychological suspense, we follow a cast of characters as they attempt to unravel the secrets that have tangled them all up together. The novel opens with a freelance private investigator who is trying to track down a children’s book author who disappeared five years ago. But we are not here for the PI himself, as he quickly disappears as well. Our true story lies in the secret mountain village he may or may not have disappeared from — a village were a man, his wife, and his sister-in-law live have lived all their lives, having never seen the outside world. When this small family accidentally stumbles upon strange evidence of visitors to the village who vanished into thin air, they realize they have been living in a web of dangerous secrets they could never have guessed at. To understand both what is happening, and the stories of their own lives, they will have to uncover truths that would much stay hidden in the dark.

This is a moody, creepy novel without being horror. The prose is rich and textured. The characters are complex, fully-realized — at turns relatable and completely baffling. As the secrets unfold, this book will keep you on your toes, and you’ll be thinking about it long after it’s over.

Boxes will ship November 23 to december 7th

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This month’s adult book option is a swoon-worthy historical fantasy romance set in Edwardian England from a debut author. When a cash-strapped baronet is accidentally given a government position he is not remotely qualified for, he finds himself thrown into a massive conspiracy that includes the existence of magical families hidden from the public eye, a missing public official, and a magical relic that may or may not be nothing but a fairy tale. The baronet is placed under a painful deadly curse by enemies who believe he knows more than he actually does, and he must turn to a prickly standoffish magician for help to save his life and unravel the mysteries surrounding them. In the course of their investigations, the two men will learn to rely on each other and discover that the most dangerous thing of all may be their own feelings.

This novel features a fascinating and complex magical system and a steamy queer romance that will you leave you breathless. It also examines the emotional, soul-deep damage that neglectful and abusive families can inflict on each other, and the courage required to struggle through that damage in order to find true connection and happiness. The two main characters are fully-realized personalities, flawed and damaged by their families, sympathetic and endearing, and the sparks between them are palpable. And this magical version of Edwardian England feels grounded and real, with lush description and fine detail.

Please note: this month’s book contains explicit (consensual) sexual content

Boxes will ship Oct 18th through 29th

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October’s adult book comes from an author we have featured twice before, a favorite for both Mary and Amanda. The book is a novella, and a fractured fairytale for grown-ups, in which a folklore scholar comes face to face with the stories she has been obsessed with since she was a young child. When a rift in the fabric of reality tears open and swallows her up, she finds herself in a fairytale world with nothing but a cell phone that shouldn’t work as a tether to her world and her best friend. Trapped in a strange place, she struggles to save the life of an actual, real-life princess, as well as her own.

In the course of her adventure, she learns things about herself she would never have guessed, breaks all the rules she had created to keep herself from getting hurt, and finally faces head-on the difficult path her own life had laid out for her. Our heroine is smart, stubborn, and hilarious with dry sarcasm. And the worlds that swirl around her are both magical and deadly. (Here’s hoping for a follow-up story sometime down the road!)

As a bonus, this month comes with a second novella by a debut POC author, that likewise features a tough, intelligent woman trying to save herself in a world gone dangerously deadly and bizarre. This story is about righteous anger and the prices we pay for retribution, and is gothic fantasy horror at its best. Be prepared for vivid descriptions and some mild body horror in this one.

 Boxes will ship sept 27th- Oct 8th

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This month we have a heartwarming and funny ghost story. It's about a man who lacks compassion for anyone and quite literally worked himself to death. He's taken to the ferrymen who lives inside of a tea shop where he learns what it means to live in death.

We meet a cast of charming characters who will pull at your heart strings. The book has Black, Asian, and queer rep.

 Boxes will ship August 16-20th

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August’s adult book option is a bit different, a bit off-the-beaten-path, but I absolutely adored this book and I hope you will wander off the path with me for a bit. This book is a contemporary, queer, magical realism riff on a piece of classic literature — one that almost everyone will probably recognize. It features three endearing, infuriating, brilliant, disaster human beings: a manic-depressive rich boy who has just lost his father, his alcoholic artist ex-fiancé with a dark secret, and his best friend who has been not-so-secretly in love with him for years. (I want to gather them all in my hands and hold them very tenderly, and also shake them for being so ridiculous.)

Once you realize which classic story is being played with here, you will begin to suspect some things, and you will think you know how it will end. And there you might find you are wrong. The author leads us down streets, into dreams, and through secret passages you cannot begin to guess with - both delighting and confounding our expectations right up to the very end.

This book is also a love story to New York City, breathing such intense life and color and music into the setting that it quickly becomes its own character. Even readers who have never walked the streets of New York will feel they know and love the place by the end. But let me sing the praises of my favorite part: the PROSE! The prose is at turns sardonic, musical, timeless, and enormously contemporary. I weep with jealousy that I cannot write like this. Filled with deep philosophical questions and dreamlike symbolism, the novel winds its way through the lives and psyches of its characters with clarity, empathy, and wonder. With effortless grace, this book has climbed its way to the top of my favorite books of the year list.

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 Boxes will ship July 19th through July 26th

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July’s adult book comes from a POC author that we at Fox & Wit had the pleasure of featuring when her debut novel came out a couple years ago! This novel is inspired by pre-colonial India, and is set in an empire where a religious majority has decimated, oppressed, and conquered the people of a minority religion in a neighboring region. Years before the story begins, the emperor had ordered the slaughter and burning of the temple’s elders, women, and children. But a small number of the temple followers survived and have waged secret rebellions throughout the empire with riots and targeted assassinations.

One surviving member has chosen to hide and live a quiet life working as a maidservant in a nobleman’s employ, simply doing her best to survive and help the homeless children around her. Meanwhile, left to the guardianship of that same nobleman, the emperor’s sister has been banished from the capital city and ordered to live in isolation as punishment for defying the wishes of the emperor and his fanatical religious fervor. These two women come from very different worlds and have very different needs and goals. And yet they find something useful in each other, something they each believe they can turn to their own ends. When their fates become more and more entwined, they agree to work together against their common enemy: the emperor.

This story is filled with intricate detailed world building, and gorgeous lush prose that makes you imagine you can truly smell the incense and the flowers, feel the fire and hear the rush of water. The main characters and a good majority of the supporting characters are all fully-realized women with conflicting motives and desires, who are all smart, resourceful, and fascinating in their own ways. The story asks difficult questions about power, oppression, and obligation. And as a happy bonus, it is also gloriously sapphic!

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Boxes will ship June 28th through July 9th

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This month’s adult book option takes us to cold dark land in the north, to a country bordered by a strange twisted forest that no one can enter or escape. Centuries ago two people made a bargain with the forest to escape their fates in exchange for their servitude, and ultimately their blood. Generations later their descendants find themselves still bound to this bargain, through no fault or choice of their own. As part of this bargain, a young woman is sacrificed to the forest on her twentieth birthday as her twin looks on helplessly, unable to stop it.

What the twin does not know is that her sister has long accepted this sacrifice for reasons entirely her own -- to keep a violent secret power away from those she loves. She fully expects to die, but instead finds herself in the middle of the forest, faced with a far stranger fate than mere death, standing with a man she should fear but cannot help but be drawn to. Together they must decipher what it is the forest truly wants of them, and work together to protect the outside world from shadows darker and more dangerous than any threat the forest itself might pose. Meanwhile, the twin turns to blasphemy and treachery in an effort to save her sister from the forest that took her away.

With evocative lyrical prose, this debut author weaves a dark fairy tale about duty, sacrifice, and love. It is an intense romantic love story between two tortured, haunted people. But it is equally a story about twin sisters, and the lengths they will go to in order to save each other. This novel asks if it is possible to go too far, even in the name of love. And it asks us to consider the consequences of difficult decisions, and the harms we may inflict even in an effort to save and protect.

Content warning for for the wolf


-self-harm for magic use (cutting)
-parental neglect/emotional abuse
-mentions of physical symptoms that might be triggering to those with emetophobia
-anxiety/panic attacks
-parental death
-gore
-mild audio/visual hallucinations
-religious abuse

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 Boxes will ship May 26th through June  7th

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In an empire inspired by West African culture, on a continent divided between desert, fertile mainland, and distant islands, a young scholar-in-training finds himself caught between traditional societal expectation, and the ambitions of his own heart. He lives in a society strictly demarcated by class, dictated by birthright, wealth, and the darkness of one’s skin, yet he himself sits in the limbo of being ethnically-mixed, neither fully accepted nor shunned by the upper classes. As he attempts to fulfill his obligations and follow the strict guidelines set for him, he continually finds himself resisting and transgressing despite himself. Meanwhile, his betrothed, also caught between classes in her own way, is determined to be as perfect and traditional as possible in order to climb to the highest levels of power, hindered though she is by her fiance’s rule-breaking.

When a mysterious woman arrives in the capital city by illegally crossing a closed immigration border, her presence throws both the city as a whole and the scholar’s life into turmoil. For this young woman comes from an island that history and authority have declared a myth, bringing with her forbidden secret magics that the scholar has broken rules to find before. At a crucial moment, when a single choice could make or break his career and his life, the scholar chooses to help the mysterious woman, in defiance of his own fiance’s wishes, thus placing them all on a path of conspiracies, violence, betrayal, and magic.

As it dances between chapters told from various character POVs, interweaving several diverging and converging plot lines, this novel asks deep questions about identity, loyalty, and the delicate balance between doing what is expected by society and what one’s own heart desires. It examines issues of race and class, and the excuses a society will make to defend the oppression of minority groups of all kinds. It also offers a new and eye-opening viewpoint in contrast to the often-unacknowledged white/Western/European background of so much English-language fantasy fiction.

Boxes will ship April 19-23

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This month’s adult book takes us to a fantastical world where time is currency, and you can sell away your life, where emotions can be bottled and weaponized, and where death is not the end of your knowledge and ambitions. This novel opens with the daring theft of an extremely dangerous magical artifact that could potentially lead to the deaths of dozens, or more. The main character is a tough young woman who is a member of the law enforcement, as she attempts to track down the artifact and its thieves, and unravel the mystery of how and why it was stolen in the first place, while simultaneously struggling with a crippling phobia. At the same time, the narrative switches to the perspective of a young woman trying to heal her mother of a devastating illness, only to find her attempts thwarted as the magic needed proceeds to overwhelm her. How the stories of these two women become intertwined leads to more questions (and answers) than either know how to deal with.

This intricate novel manages to be many things at once: a fantasy with dystopian overtones, a police procedural mixed with a heist novel, a story about consequences and the lengths one will go to in order to fulfill their ambitions. In a world that is dark, filled monsters both human and nonhuman, where the years of your life can be gambled away and your emotions can be twisted and overturned by outside forces, it is no wonder that these characters must face intense violence and uncertainty as they navigate the mysteries unfolding around them. And as the quickly-paced plot hurtles you down its shadowy path, the results will leave you breathless.

Content Warning:

 a few pretty gruesome scenes of violence and death

Boxes will ship March 22-31st

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"This month’s adult option comes from a debut author who brings us to a realm on the brink of war and destruction in a political intrigue fantasy that could give Game of Thrones a run for its money. This debut arrives on the science fiction/fantasy scene with a bang, and more world-building than you could possibly hope for, and builds to a dramatic climax with increasing tension and suspense.

Our main character is a scholar and the protégé of a warrior-queen who has just been assassinated. When the scholar, a commoner, is shockingly assigned the task of choosing a new ruler from among the nobility of the surrounding city-states, she is thrust into a world of political machinations, alliances, betrayals, and death she feels woefully unprepared for. Add in an evil queen long-thought dead who may be returning to conquer the realm, and the scholar’s secret drug addiction, and it seems things could not get more complicated. Until they do.

This novel delights in thwarting reader expectations, seeming to be one kind of story before transforming into another about a third of the way through. It is so full of well-laid but shocking plot twists that you will not be able to catch your breath from beginning to end. On top of all this is a protagonist who is brilliant and brave despite her growing addiction, and who is the very definition of disaster bi. This book is already a contender for my favorite book of the year!

Content Warning:

This book depicts some very mild consensual BDSM. It is more implied than anything, but there are a couple scenes that give some description.

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February’s adult book is a fairy-tale-like story from a debut author, that is in turns sweet and haunting. This novel takes as its starting point a single cryptic reference from Norse mythology about a single sometimes-nameless woman, and spins out into a heartfelt, timeless tale about a brilliant powerful witch, the god she loves, and the children she bears who are foretold to destroy the world. The main character is a powerful witch who has been burned three times as punishment for defying the gods, but refuses to die. While in hiding, she falls in love with one of those gods, and bears him three children -- monsters who, through no fault of their own, may someday have the capacity to bring about the end of the world. But the witch is first and foremost their mother, and she will do anything to protect her children, no matter what any god has to say on the matter.

The author, borrowing her main characters from Norse mythology, breathes new life into time-worn stories, giving all of those involved complex personalities and motives. All the characters are endearing, sympathetic, and infuriating -- often at the same time! -- with fully embodied lives and relationships. This is a highly recommended book for those who love fairy tales and mythological re-tellings, as well as anyone who loves a little (or a lot) of family drama mixed in with their fantasy.

Boxes will ship February 22nd to March 1st

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This month’s adult book option is a dark, bloody fantasy of epic proportions from a debut author, in a world fallen into chaos as gods wage war against each other, using their human followers and acolytes as pawns and weapons. In the distant past, the new gods had emerged and defeated the old gods, caging them away. These new gods walked the earth, calling their chosen peoples to follow them. But now the old gods have escaped, and all people may perish in the wake of their rage. Caught in the middle is a priestess for the goddess of war. When she is exiled by her goddess for disobedience, she unwittingly becomes the only surviving member of her order, her home temple having been attacked and ravaged by invaders from the mountains. Now she is on a quest to fulfill the orders of her goddess and kill a man she has already failed to kill twice. On the path of this quest, she will encounter people from an empire with armies more numerous than the stars in the sky, face down gods old and new, and learn to question everything she has ever been taught about the gods and her place in the world.

The heroine of this tale is powerful and intelligent, complex and flawed, pious and full of doubt. The people she encounters are by turns compassionate, brutal, and cunning. The world-building is rich and textured, with an enormous pantheon of petty, violent, vengeful gods. And the intensely-driven plot packs all the excitement, drama, and bloody fight scenes you could possibly hope for

This is a late release book. Boxes will ship January 26th through February 2nd.

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This month’s adult book option takes us to a United States we would almost, but not quite, recognize. In this genre-defying story, a brother and sister are stranded in a sleepy New England town after an unknown catastrophic event causes all technology to fail. With cars dead, communication evaporated, and roads disintegrating, cities and towns across America have become separate isolated city-states. The sister has adapted, becoming a farmer and respected town citizen. The brother has floundered, once a prominent tv writer, now an ersatz mailman. And then something even stranger than the initial catastrophe happens: a charismatic man from the brother’s past appears from nowhere, with seemingly the only car left in the world that actually works, having driven from California to the East Coast across an America gone wild and savage. And the changes he brings with him could upend the fragile peace the town has built.

This novel is strange, oddly-funny, and dream-like: a cross between post-apocalyptic tale and magical realism, with a healthy dose of philosophical rumination and a treatise on the inherent weirdness of the human condition. There are no straight answers here, but the questions will leave you thinking, and often chuckling, far past the final page.

boxes will ship December 14th to 22nd.

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This is a fantasy set in the Victorian-esque era and a world where women have to choose between practicing their magic or bearing children for doing both is deadly. Two young heroines, who prove that female friendship is a valuable asset, sets off to change how we understand magic and hope to alter women's role in their world. They want a world where women are free to choose both their families as well as their magical crafts. One fights for her rights not to marry and show her family she has value as a person and not just property to be traded between empires of wealth.

Boxes will ship Nov 17th through 24th.