Our Illumicrate September theme is . . . KNIGHTCORE!
A true knight can fight everything . . . except their feelings.
If you like knights and devastatingly romantic yearning, we think you’ll enjoy this one!
Our September book is an adult fantasy debut! When a quest to protect a child from an enemy kingdom draws a mage and their knight protector into a war between nations, they are thrust into something far bigger than themselves. But the knight is hiding a secret, and her death would be catastrophic for all magic in the world. With their future and their relationship under threat, the knight and the mage must decide how far they would go for each other and the world.
Our Illumicrate Exclusive edition is a Royal hardback and features:
- An exclusive redesigned cover (art by @teradiamart; design by @chattynora)
- Full colour art and foil on the hardback (art by @dominikmayerart; design by @chattynora)
- Digitally printed edges (by @chattynora)
- Illustrated endpapers (by @emmagilletteart); different front and back
- Bound-in author letter
- Bonus content
- Digitally signed by the author (on the author letter)
Fandoms this month include Legendborn, Gideon the Ninth, Song of the Lioness, and The Knight and the Moth. Our next weaponry replica is in this box - inspired by Legendborn - and our Gideon the Ninth item is a set of bookmarks illustrated by @merwildandco!
The book at a glance:
- Adult fantasy debut; first in a series of connected standalones
- Featuring: exclusive redesigned cover; full colour art and foil on the hardback; digitally printed edges; illustrated endpapers; author letter; bonus content; digitally signed by the author
- M/F relationship; queer (bisexual) MC; queer love interest; queer secondary characters (trans character, nonbinary characters, ambiguously queer characters and relationships); queernorm world; characters with limb differences; diverse cast
Content warnings:
- Blood
- Gore
- Violence
- Parental death
- Explicit sexual content
- Kidnapping and abduction
- Grief
- Character death (major, minor, child)
- Mentions of threat of sexual assault (in regard to enforcing the line of succession
PSA: Our September book is written by a Daphne Press employee. They do not work for Illumicrate and are not involved in any part of the process of selecting books & curating editions/boxes. The book was picked because the Illumicrate team genuinely love it and wanted to create a beautiful edition.
Open subscription spots will be offered exclusively to our Illumicrate waitlist. You can join the subscription waitlist here.
