COVER REVEAL!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited to share the cover of The Lustrous Dark with you! This cover is everything I could have asked for! The perfect marriage of dark fairytale and epic fantasy vibes!!
@tomrobertsillustration perfectly captured the Tim Burtonesque qualities of the haunted forest!!I love everything about it!!
And guess what? THE LUSTROUS DARK IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER!! (🔗 In by-oh!) AND MORE GOOD NEWS: first edition hardcovers will have:
🖤Stenciled edges
✨Custom full-color end pages
🖤Foil jacket
For fans of Sabaa Tahir and Guillermo del Toro comes The Lustrous Dark, a sweeping YA fantasy inspired by a Moroccan folktale, in which a young midwife’s apprentice rises up to take back the power that’s been stolen from women.
Orphaned as a baby, Shay has spent her life training as the midwife’s apprentice. Her role grants her stability, yet Shay has always yearned for more. Namely, motherly affection and answers regarding her mysterious birth—neither of which the midwife deems practical to provide. After Shay discovers her birth mother, Hind, is still alive and addicted to a magical drug called Snow, she determines to get the woman clean. But when Hind betrays Shay to get her hands on more Snow, Shay’s abandoned within a deadly forest and forced to rely on a band of monstrous ghouls for safety. Shay’s realm has long stood on the brink of war between the men who control magic and the revolutionaries who want to eliminate it. But in the forest, Shay hears the pleading call of ancient spirits who claim that not only has magic been stolen, but Shay has the power to return it. With the help of a spitfire revolutionary and the boy who’s winning over her heart, Shay discovers the horrific truth of who produces Snow and will have to decide for herself whether to heed the spirits’ charge or fade into obscurity.
From
@peachtreeteen May 19 2026!
For readers who love: political revolutions, fighting the patriarchy, toxic mothers, reawakening the gods, ancient magic, bone-chilling monsters, haunted forest, female friendships, fairy tale retellings, North African folklore, and cinnamon roll love interest!!!
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