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Fantasy

September 2025 'Knightcore' book only - single purchase

$27.00

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About the product

Our Illumicrate September theme is . . . KNIGHTCORE!

A true knight can fight everything . . . except their feelings.

If you like knights and devastatingly romantic yearning, we think you’ll enjoy this one!

Our September book is an adult fantasy debut! When a quest to protect a child from an enemy kingdom draws a mage and their knight protector into a war between nations, they are thrust into something far bigger than themselves. But the knight is hiding a secret, and her death would be catastrophic for all magic in the world. With their future and their relationship under threat, the knight and the mage must decide how far they would go for each other and the world.

Our Illumicrate Exclusive edition is a Royal hardback and features:

  • An exclusive redesigned cover (art by @teradiamart; design by @chattynora)
  • Full colour art and foil on the hardback (art by @dominikmayerart; design by @chattynora)
  • Digitally printed edges (by @chattynora)
  • Illustrated endpapers (by @emmagilletteart); different front and back
  • Bound-in author letter
  • Bonus content
  • Digitally signed by the author (on the author letter)

The book at a glance:

  • Adult fantasy debut; first in a series of connected standalones
  • 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 relationship; queer (bisexual) MC; queer love interest; queer secondary characters (trans character, nonbinary characters, ambiguously queer characters and relationships); queernorm world; characters with limb differences; diverse cast

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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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    Please fill out our Customer Support form and we can do that for you! If you change your address in your account, this will not carry over to any orders you have paid for, only future orders.

    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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    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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