Illumicrate
Fantasy
December 2025 'Stories Within Stories' full box - single purchase
$38.00
About the product
Sometimes a story spills beyond the pages of a book.
Our December book is an adult fantasy standalone! A disgraced bookseller receives the chance to return to the magical bookshop where she once worked when the owner dies. To restore the shop to its former glory, she reluctantly teams up with a rival bookseller. But nothing is as it seems: the previous owner’s death was not simple, and dark forces threaten. Will she be able to save her new home, or will the secrets of this magical world be her undoing?
Our Illumicrate Exclusive edition is a Royal hardback and features:
- An exclusive redesigned cover (art by @joseeshimazaki; design by @chattynora)
- Full colour art and foil on the hardback (art by @harkalelinai)
- Digitally printed edges (by @joseeshimazaki)
- Illustrated endpapers (by @amaretta_); different front and back
- Bound-in author letter
- Bonus content
- Digitally signed by the author (on the author letter)
If you like . . . books about books, sassy animal companions and enemies to lovers (ft. belligerent sexual tension), we think you’ll enjoy this one!
Fandoms this month include A Study in Drowning and The Isle in the Silver Sea! There will also be a book-themed reading journal with art by @rinfishe and @rosdottir, and a set of stickers inspired by each of our 2025 monthly books.
The book at a glance:
- Adult fantasy standalone
- Featuring: exclusive redesigned cover; full colour art and foil on the hardback; digitally printed edges; illustrated endpapers; author letter; bonus content; digitally signed by the author
- M/F main romance, POC secondary characters
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What is Illumicrate?
Illumicrate started life as a quarterly subscription box, and we're proud that we were the first UK book subscription box! We launched in the summer of 2015, and our very first box was November 2015. We now offer two options for the Illumicrate monthly subscriptions: a full box subscription and a book only subscription, which features the books included in our monthly boxes.
In 2021 we launched Afterlight, a quarterly romance subscription box that is now monthly. Evernight, a quarterly horror subscription box, was launched in July 2023. Our new science fiction book only subscription Starbright will launch in February 2025.
We also offer special editions of books and book sets, with a range of customisations exclusive to Illumicrate. We have also held virtual signings and in 2019 we launched our Debut Boxes, showcasing new debut authors. Our Collections, Archives and Mini-boxes focus on a particular author or fandom.
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Once your box has shipped we cannot change your address and you may be charged additional shipping to have it sent to your correct address.
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I've changed my mind, can I have a refund?
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If you have ordered a single purchase item or something from our shop, as long as your order hasn't yet gone into pre-shipment we can usually refund it for you. To cancel your order, please fill in our Customer Support Form or contact us directly at support@illumicrate.com.
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