Our Illumicrate July theme is . . . ENDLESS SACRIFICE
For your people and your fate you must sacrifice it all, again and again and again.
Our July book is an adult dark epic fantasy and you’ll not want to miss this box if you’re fans of:
- Courtly intrigue and political machinations
- Playing the long game to get your revenge
- House of the Dragon with ancient forest magic instead of dragons
After her kingdom is conquered, a princess enters a sacrificial marriage with the usurper king, intending to assassinate him on their wedding night. But she soon realises a quick death is not enough; the empire must be dismantled from the inside. Forced to endure a corrupt and misogynist court, she must outmanoeuvre power-hungry heirs while her own forbidden magic begins to stir. As her influence grows, the now-queen is forced to decide how far she will go and how much more of herself she will sacrifice on her quest for power.
Our Illumicrate Exclusive edition is a royal hardback and will feature:
- An exclusive redesigned cover (art by @alicecaoillustration, design by @chattynora)
- Reverse jacket featuring an exclusive trade variant (from the publisher)
- Full colour art on wibalin hardback (by @amsartor)
- Digitally printed fore-edge (by @chattynora) with block-sprayed top & bottom edges
- Illustrated endpapers; different front and back (by @kristinagehrmann)
- Bonus content
- Bound-in author letter with a digital signature
Our full box will feature three useful and decorative items inspired by our ENDLESS SACRIFICE fandoms: The Everlasting, Quicksilver and Shield of Sparrows. We consider all three of these to be high-value items, including a ceramic small plate set designed by @_studio_ao.
The book at a glance:
- Adult dark epic fantasy, first in a trilogy
- All exclusive: redesigned cover; reverse dust jacket; full colour art on the hardback; digitally printed foreedge; illustrated endpapers; bonus content; author letter; digitally signed by the author
- Sapphic MC, LGBTQIA+ minor and major characters
Content warnings:
- Content warnings:
- Period/concept typical misogyny
- Blood
- Gore
- War and PTSD
- Intentional self harm
- Animal death
- Explicit sex
- Sexual violence (mostly off page)
- Sexual assault
- Assault
- Strangulation
- Torture (off page)
- Discussion of coerced pregnancy
- Minor character death
- Major character death
- Poisoning and near death experience
- Body horror
- Bullying
- Familial abuse (violent)
- Emotional abuse (non violent)
- Flogging
- Implied suppression of LGBTQIA+ characters
- Religious suppression and control
- Violence against women
- Fratricide
- Sororicide
- Suicide
- Filicide
- Uxoricide
- Siege warfare
- Mass murder and burial
- Depictions of early onset dementia
- Depictions of grief
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