ALL first edition copies will be signed by the author! Signed copies available while supplies
last. "Unmissable... Nobody can write like V. E. Schwab" -Jodi Picoult #1 New York Times
bestseller ¿ #1 USA Today bestseller ¿ #1 National Indie bestseller ¿ #1 IndieNext List June
2025 A MOST ANTICIPATED Pick from USA Today ¿ New York Times Book Review ¿ US Weekly ¿ ELLE
¿ TIME ¿ Betches ¿ AutoStraddle¿ Katie Couric Media ¿ Men's Health ¿ Woman's World ¿ Reader's
Digest ¿ Goodreads ¿ Paste Magazine ¿ The Nerd Daily ¿ BookRiot ¿ Bookbub ¿ ScreenRant ¿ The
Portalist ¿ Publishers Weekly ¿ Kirkus Reviews ¿ Library Journal The new genre-defying novel
about immortality and hunger from V. E. Schwab the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The
Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. This is a story about hunger. 1532. Santo Domingo de la
Calzada. A young girl grows up wild and wily-her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of
escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize or a pawn in the games played by men.
When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path María makes a desperate choice. She vows to
have no regrets. This is a story about love. 1827. London. A young woman lives an idyllic
but cloistered life on her family's estate until a moment of forbidden intimacy sees her
shipped off to London. Charlotte's tender heart and seemingly impossible wishes are swept away
by an invitation from a beautiful widow-but the price of freedom is higher than she could have
imagined. This is a story about rage. 2019. Boston. College was supposed to be her chance to
be someone new. That's why Alice moved halfway across the world leaving her old life behind.
But after an out-of-character one-night stand leaves her questioning her past her present and
her future Alice throws herself into the hunt for answers . . . and revenge. This is a
story about life-how it ends and how it starts. "Schwab has impressively woven a compelling
character drama and feminist critique into a horror thriller...sumptuous descriptions of place
and time and the slow-burn melodrama between each of the women... a tale told sharply but
sweetly enough it goes down as easy as that happy-hour cocktail that surprisingly knocks you
flat." -New York Times "Schwab sends you whirling through a dizzying kaleidoscopic adventure
through centuries filled with love loss art and war-all the while dazzling your senses with
hundreds of tiny magical moments along the way." -Naomi Novik
