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Samantha Sotto Yambao

Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao full box (Illumicrate 'Fantasy Emporiums' Exclusive)

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About the product

Featured book: Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao

Get your hands on an Illumicrate full box featuring Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto. 

This is a single purchase of one of our past full boxes and will not subscribe you to any of our subscription products.

Push open this glittering door and step into a shadowed room full of mystery and magic.

Our January Illumicrate book is a standalone adult fantasy debut! When the owner of a magical pawnshop arrives one morning to find her father missing, the shop ransacked and their most valuable item stolen, she enlists the help of a charming but enigmatic stranger to get everything back. Together they journey through a mystical world, but as they get closer to finding that which they have lost, choices must be made which could reveal secrets they can never take back . . .

Our Illumicrate Exclusive edition is a Royal hardback and features:

  • An exclusive redesigned cover (by @josee_smzk; design by @chattynora)
  • Full colour printing and foil on the hardback (by @danlinz_art)
  • Digitally printed edges (by @josee_smzk)
  • Illustrated endpapers (by @hoanglapdoan); different front and back
  • Digitally signed by the author

The book at a glance:

  • Standalone adult fantasy debut
  • Featuring: exclusive redesigned cover; full colour printing and foil on the hardback; digitally printed edges; illustrated endpapers; digitally signed by the author.
  • M/F main romance; PoC main characters; PoC side characters

Items included in the full box option:

  • Midnight Bridge blanket inspired by Water Moon, featuring artwork by Danlin Zhang
  • Poison Garden mini bud vases inspired by This Poison Heart, artwork by Cristina Panebianco
  • Heart's Desire trivet inspired by Legends & Lattes, designed by Adrianne Bresijn
  • Spindrift Tearoom tea strainer inspired by A Tempest of Tea, designed by Jane Tibbetts

Photos by @bookwormgram

About the Author

Samantha Sotto Yambao is a professional daydreamer, aspiring time traveller, and speculative fiction writer based in Manila. She is the author of Before Ever After, Love and Gravity, A Dream of Trees, and The Beginning of Always. Water Moon is her latest novel and UK debut.

Content warnings for Water Moon

  • Content Warning

    Content warnings:

    • Violence
    • Blood
    • Past death of a loved one
    • Injury Descriptions
    • Consensual Sex
    • Sexually Explicit Scenes
    • Religion
    • Cancer and talks of cancer treatment (affecting a loved one)
    • Childbirth
    • Depression & anxiety
    • Grief and depictions of grief
    • Hallucinations
    • Infertility
    • Mental illness with psychosis
    • Mention of stillbirths, loss of children
    • Pregnancy
    • Divorce
    • Forced betrothal
    • Imprisonment
    • Isolation
    • Parent loss

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