The Sun and the Starmaker
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- Expected 17 Feb 2026
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- 19,99 €
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- Pre-Order
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- 19,99 €
Publisher Description
There once was a village so far north that most considered it the top of the world... and in that village, the Sun fell in love with her Starmaker. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nature of Witches comes a whimsical and sweeping romantic fantasy.
Nestled deep in the snowy mountains of the Lost Range, the village of Reverie is a small miracle. Beyond the reach of the Sun, Reverie is dependent upon the magic of the mysterious Starmaker: every morning, he trudges across a vast glacier and pulls in sunlight over the peaks, providing the village with the light it needs to survive.
Aurora Finch grew up on tales of the Starmaker’s magic, never imagining she’d one day meet him. But on the morning of her wedding, a fateful encounter in the frostbitten woods changes everything. The Starmaker senses a powerful magic within her and demands she come study under his guidance. With her newfound abilities tied to the survival of the village, Aurora is swept away to his ice-covered castle and far from everything she’s ever known.
The Starmaker is as cold and distant as the mountain itself, leaving Aurora to explore his enchanted castle alone. Yet the more she discovers about the sorcerer, the stronger their attraction grows, pulling her closer to the secrets he refuses to share. But a deadly frost approaches and Aurora must uncover what the Starmaker is hiding before she is left in an endless winter that even the Sun cannot touch.
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In the town of Reverie, survival depends upon the Sun-blessed immortal Starmaker, who must pull in sunlight every day to keep the deadly Frost at bay. On 18-year-old Aurora Finch's wedding day, she has a chance encounter with the current Starmaker, an icily attractive young man far older than he appears, who identifies her as his successor. Whisked away to a magical castle at the peak of the Lost Range, Aurora trains to take over the duties of Starmaker, struggling to accept the new role as she wrestles with grief over losing the quiet life she expected to lead. But as she and her mentor fall in love, she must reckon with the immortal life of duty and loneliness awaiting her when she inevitably steps into her position and her mentor, now replaced, must die. Using highly inventive and thematically rich worldbuilding, Griffin (Bring Me Your Midnight) weaves a stunning fairy tale about love, commitment, and grief, expertly intertwining relatable growing pains of young adulthood with mythological burdens of epic proportions for a star-crossed romance that feels both fresh and instantly classic. Aurora and the Starmaker read as white. Ages 14–up.