The Everlasting
DELUXE EDITION—a beautiful hardcover edition featuring dark teal sprayed edges, a foil stamp on the casing, and full-page illustrations!
From Alix E. Harrow, the New York Times bestselling author of Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying quest about the lady-knight whose legend built a nation, and the cowardly historian sent back through time to make sure she plays her part–even if it breaks his heart.
Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children’s books and recruiting posters—but her life as it truly happened has been forgotten.
Centuries later, Owen Mallory—failed soldier, struggling scholar—falls in love with the tale of Una Everlasting. Her story takes him to war, to the archives—and then into the past itself. Una and Owen are tangled together in time, bound to retell the same story over and over again, no matter what it costs.
But that story always ends the same way. If they want to rewrite Una’s legend—if they want to tell a different story--they’ll have to rewrite history itself.
"Alix E. Harrow is an exceptional, undeniable talent." —Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six
"An utter masterpiece... I loved every single page." —Rachel Gillig, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of One Dark Window
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781250799081
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Carla B.
It begins beneath a yew tree, a girl who has yet to become a knight, and a boy without a story. From that moment, legends are born. A sword pulled from the heart of the tree sets everything into motion, creating a tale of love, loss, and time itself. A thousand years later, their paths cross again. He finds her. He loses her. And so it begins again. The Everlasting is about rewriting fate, confronting the stories we tell ourselves, and discovering whose story really matters in the end.
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I knew I was going to love this book. I’ve been hooked on Alix E. Harrow’s writing since Starling House. Being from Kentucky, that one felt extra personal. But this? This might be her most imaginative book yet. It’s the kind of story you don’t forget. I’ll be thinking about this one for a long time.
Harrow’s imagination is on full display here. It’s sprawling, emotional, and has just enough humor tucked in to keep you from falling apart completely. Not that it worked for me because I was absolutely sobbing by the end.
The story jumps through time in this brilliant, heartbreaking way, looping back and forth between these two characters who are bound together by fate, history, and heartbreak. It’s about legends, love, and rewriting what we thought we knew. It felt epic but also deeply intimate.
If you love books that make you feel something and remind you that stories can outlive us all, this is one for your shelf. Huge thanks to Tor Books and NetGalley for the advanced reader copy. I was shocked and honored to get to read this early.
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