Our Illumicrate August theme is . . . BOUND TO KILL
Some are bound by their duty, but you are bound by my will - it is for me that you must kill.
Our August book is an adult epic fantasy and you’ll not want to miss this box if you’re fans of:
Some are bound by their duty, but you are bound by my will - it is for me that you must kill.
Our August book is an adult epic fantasy and you’ll not want to miss this box if you’re fans of:
- Life or death tournaments
- Queernormative worlds
- Scandal’s Olivia Pope… if she were a powerful immortal
Serving a lazy ruler was a luxury for the immortal assassins bound to the throne; a peaceful reprieve from the decades of slaughter demanded by the tyrant who first enslaved them. But when the heirless king is mysteriously murdered, they must organise a tournament to crown a successor or face deadly consequences. As sentient magic chokes the city like smog with its own dark agenda, a battle of wills rages. The power-hungry queen backs a puppet champion to secure her reign, while the assassins desperately rig the trials for their own "lesser of two evils". In a game where the rules are written in blood, can anyone truly win?
Our Illumicrate Exclusive edition is a royal hardback and will feature:
Our Illumicrate Exclusive edition is a royal hardback and will feature:
- An exclusive redesigned cover (art by @park_sunga; design by @chattynora)
- Reverse jacket featuring an exclusive trade variant (from the publisher)
- Full colour art and foil on the hardback (art by @hillarydwilsonart; design by @chattynora)
- Digitally printed fore-edge (by @park_sunga) with block-sprayed top & bottom edges
- Illustrated endpapers; different front and back (by @not.andreas)
- Bonus content
- Bound-in author letter with a digital signature
Our full box will feature four useful and decorative items inspired by our BOUND TO KILL fandoms: Gideon the Ninth, The Isle in the Silver Sea, Six of Crows, and the monthly book, one of which is our next replica.
The book at a glance:
The book at a glance:
- Adult epic fantasy, first in a trilogy
- All exclusive: redesigned cover; reverse dust jacket; full colour art and foil on the hardback; digitally printed foreedge; illustrated endpapers; bonus content; author letter; digitally signed by the author
- Black FMC and supporting characters; queernormative world; Queer polygamous FMC with F/F and F/M romance, queer secondary characters and relationships, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder rep, found family.
- Genocide
- death of children
- sexual assault
- murder
- gore (decapitation, disembowelling, dismemberment)
- death of animals
- immolation
- mentions of alcoholism
- suicidal ideation
- suicide attempt
- self-harm
- intimate partner violence (historic and current)
- toxic relationships (obsessive)
- human trafficking
- kidnapping
- illicit drug use
- alcohol abuse
- racism
- sexism
- depression
- psychosis
- enslavement
- slave trade
- fatal natural disaster (earthquake)
- mentioned paedophilia
- mentioned rape
- mentioned homophobia
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