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Soraya Bouazzaoui

Aicha by Soraya Bouazzaoui full box (Illumicrate 'Where My Demons Hide' Exclusive)

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About the product

TEMPTRESS. MONSTER. WARRIOR.

Aicha has lived her whole life under the empire’s heel. After witnessing death and destruction at the hands of the colonizers, what awakens within her is an anger that burns bright and all-consuming. An anger that fuels the strange magic she was born with, that may turn her into her people’s deadliest weapon…or a monster. 

Only Aicha’s lover, Rachid, a rebellion leader, knows how to bring Aicha back to herself when she’s in a rage. But as the fight for freedom reaches its violent climax, the creature that simmers beneath Aicha’s skin begs to be unleashed. It hungers for the screams of those who have caused her people pain, and not even the man Aicha loves the most will be able to contain her when she sets herself upon their enemies.

Because all empires must fall, and a warrior must pay for love with blood.

Our Illumicrate Exclusive edition is a royal hardback and will feature:

  • An exclusive redesigned cover (art by @fdasuarez, design by @chattynora)
  • Full colour artwork on the hardback with foil details (art by @fdasuarez, design by @chattynora)
  • Digitally printed edges on all three sides (by @fdasuarez)
  • Endpaper artwork; different front and back (by @salmakiis)
  • Annotated chapter
  • Bound-in author letter
  • Digital signature
  • Adult fantasy standalone
  • Moroccan rep; Non-fully practicing Muslim rep

Items included in the full box option:

  • Demonology book pot, artwork by Jane Tibbetts (@chattynora)
  • Infernal City book ends, inspired by Katabasis artwork by Stacey McEvoy Caunt (@stacey.mcevoy.caunt)
  • Lethe House desk mat, inspired by Ninth House, artwork by Christin Engelberth (@c.e.illo) 

Photos by @bookwormgram

“Aicha is a sharpened blade, swinging between the celebration of love in all its forms and unbridled anger.” —Eliza Chan, bestselling author of Fathomfolk

“A heady, heart-wrenching, magnetic debut, bursting with both love and fury.” —Holly Race, bestselling author of Six Wild Crowns

About the Author

Soraya Bouazzaoui is a born and bred London babes raised on Jacqueline Wilson, R.L. Stine and Malorie Blackman. Stories – in all their forms – are a central part of who she is. Soraya’s day job is book editing, and she has also written for publications such as Stylist, Bad Form, Strategist UK, Metro and Aurelia. A lover of contemporary, commercial, SFF, horror and YA fiction, her head is full of nonsense and daydreams, but she likes it that way.

Content warnings for Aicha:

  • Content Warning

    • Graphic:
      Death, Violence, Toxic friendship, Consensual sexually explicit scenes, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Non-consensual choking
    • Moderate:
      Self harm, Mental illness, Blood, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Cursing, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Corrupt state, Swearing
    • Minor:
      Classism, Child death, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Ableism, Death of parent, Sexual harassment (one verbal instance), Mention of stillbirths/loss of children

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