A Far Wilder Magic
The instant New York Times bestseller
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"A ROMANCE THAT WILL HAVE YOU AS UNMOORED AS THE CHARACTERS." - Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights
A DEADLY HUNT. A LOVE THAT COULD RISK EVERYTHING.
Maggie Welty lives in an old creaking manor with just her bloodhound for company. But when Maggie spots a mythical fox god in the woods, her fate is changed forever. Whoever tracks down and kills the hala in the Halfmoon Hunt will earn fame and riches. If Maggie wins the hunt, she knows her mother will finally come home.
But she can't win on her own...
Enter Wes Winters. A troubled and arrogant outsider obsessed with the dark art of alchemy - a dangerous magical practice that changed Maggie's mother forever. But Wes might just have the secret to killing the hala.
As the hunt takes over, the pair are drawn together as they uncover a dark magical secret that may put everything they hold dear in peril...
An intoxicating romantasy full of slow burn sizzle, dark magic, gothic tension - and unforgettably spellbinding lovers. Perfect for fans of Lauren Roberts, Erin A. Craig, and Leigh Bardugo.
2025 AMAZON NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. INSTANT INDIE BESTSELLER.
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Two white, religious outcasts—an alchemist and a marksman—team up in a divine fox hunt in this vividly written, 1920s-esque fantasy romance and blunt political parable. Months after 17-year-old Jewish-analogue Margaret Welty's researcher and alchemist mother left her behind in their crumbling New Albion manor, the Halfmoon Hunt comes to her small colonial seaside town, intending to kill the last living demiurge, the hala. And with it arrives working-class Catholic-analogue emigrants' son Weston Winters, 18, who attempts to charm Maggie into a last-ditch apprenticeship with her mother to save his reformist political ambitions. After Wes's mother is injured and his hopes further endangered, Wes and Maggie partner up to win the festive—but deadly—hala hunt, save Weston's starving family, and bring Margaret's mother home. But as their slow-growing attraction blooms alongside a rivalry with the bigoted mayor's son, Wes must find a way to crack a puzzle involving Maggie's mother—and Maggie must choose the future she wants. Saft's (Down Comes the Night) confident prose organically charts the well-characterized protagonists' romance, but its allegorized Catholic and Jewish experiences center on stereotype and its magic on rigid formula. Fans of Brandon Sanderson and Libba Bray may nevertheless appreciate this light, fantastical romance. Ages 14–up.
