A Star-Cursed Heart
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- Pedido anticipado
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- Se espera: 19 may 2026
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- $149.00
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- Pedido anticipado
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- $149.00
Descripción editorial
Two women are cursed to be mortal enemies, despite their love for each other, in this queer, fantastical novel by Annie Mare.
In the lead-up to the Salem witch trials, a desperate man made a deal with the devil—a deal that would drag two families down with him. Now, over 400 years later, the Steadfasts and the Prynnes remain caught in a curse that sentences both families to an existence of rigid rules, torturous consequences, and half-lives.
Lucy Prynne and Ashes Steadfast are the latest to take on the mantle of this centuries-old deal: Lucy, born to try to reap the souls of the hopeful; and Ashes, born to stop Lucy, no matter the cost. But before they inherited their respective curses, it sure felt like Ash’s purpose was Lucy. Her best friend, her closest confidant, her true love.
Ash knows the rules. She keeps her head down, her emotions in check, and she fights Lucy, no matter the personal cost. They are doomed to an incessant battle between good and bad, self-righteous and carnal.
Or so Ash thinks. But when she resists her instincts to fight Lucy and finally starts to fight the curse instead, she realizes there might just be a way to end this once and for all. If not in this timeline, then the next. As generational secrets begin to unravel, Ashes and Lucy join forces against the true threat that has haunted their families for centuries, even if it costs them their lives—and their love.
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Loosely riffing on The Scarlet Letter, Mare (Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon) delivers a sweeping sapphic tale of generational trauma and boundary-breaking love. The Prynnes and the Steadfasts have been feuding for 400 years. Every generation, a Prynne gains the power to steal the souls of unwary dreamers, and a Steadfast gains the power to stop them. Lucy Prynne and Ashes Steadfast grow up as inseparable best friends despite their fathers' enmity, and eventually become young lovers—though they can feel their destinies waiting. When Rye Steadfast's heart stops and Draven Prynne disappears, Ashes and Lucy are called to take their place and realize how little their fathers told them about the real scope of the powers they would gain and the way the battle would consume them. Forced to be mortal enemies against their will, their only hope is to break the curse that defines both their families before they destroy themselves by destroying each other. The women's cat-and-mouse dynamic entices, and Mare's examination of family legacy and inheritance goes deep. It's irresistible.
