September 2026
Theme = Study of Death
For fans of:
🫂 Multi-POV and ensemble casts
🔍 Magical medicine and murder
📺 The Pitt meets The Raven Scholar
💛 Legendary tales from Daevabad Book Vase – artwork by @kroovv
💛 Dalliance with Death Task Journal – inspired by Belladonna with artwork from @lichen_and_limestone
💛 Mourning Blooms Bookshelf Bunting – artwork by @swanbones
💛 Academia e-reader Charms with artwork from @lanylevendula
💛 FEATURED BOOK 💛
Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske
✨ An exclusive redesigned cover (art by @c.e.illo, design by @_anniearnold)
✨ Reverse jacket featuring an exclusive trade variant (from the publisher)
✨ Full colour art and foil on the hardback (art by @c.e.illo, design by @_anniearnold)
✨ Digitally printed edges on all three sides (by @ameliarosetattoo | @ameliarose.jpg)
✨ Illustrated endpapers with foil; different front and back (by @ameliarosetattoo | @ameliarose.jpg)
✨ Bonus content
✨ Bound-in author letter with a digital signature
BLURB
At the Academie of the Grand Duchy of Sieuxerr, every mage with the healing gift has five years to master their power and to prepare for the infamous Grand Exam – a five-day trial whose results will determine their entire future.
The list of exam rules includes:
• You will perform five practical cases.
• Your exam group is chosen at random.
• You pass together, or fail together.
It does not include:
• On the first day, your exam group will find Ysabel Caudotte – the undisputed genius of your cohort – dead in the exam hall.
From Clement, the grieving best friend hiding a dark secret, to Estienne, the arrogant son of the Head Healer set to inherit Ysabel’s top rank, this particular group all have something to hide . . . and all have a connection to the dead girl.
Five scholars. Five secrets. Five days in which to solve a murder, pass the most important exam of their lives and uncover a secret larger than all of their own combined. One with the potential to change the world.
Are you ready?
Let’s begin.
