A sensational collection from internationally bestselling author Olivie Blake.

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, the spirit tethered to a magical bridge rapidly approaches burnout – and craves her freedom. Elsewhere, Congress enacts a complex auditing system designed to un-waste your youth. We also follow a banished fairy, as she answers a Craigslist ad. And we meet a Victorian orphan, who gains literacy for her occult situationship. In another time and place, a multiverse assassin contemplates the one who got away.

Escape the slow trudge of mortality with these magical ruminations on life, death and the love (or revenge) that outlasts both. This collection also features modified fairy tales, contemporary heists, absurdist poetry and at least one set of actual wedding vows.

‘Olivie Blake is a mind-blowing talent’ – Chloe Gong, author of These Violent Delights

‘Sign me up for anything she writes’ – Cosmopolitan

Also by Olivie Blake:
The Atlas Six
The Atlas Paradox
The Atlas Complex
Alone with You in the Ether
One For My Enemy
Masters of Death

^{Olivie Blake is a multiple Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller - reaching No. 1 for The Atlas Complex in January 2024.}

Olivie Blake is a mind-blowing talent -- Chloe Gong, author of These Violent Delights
Sign me up for anything she writes -- Cosmopolitan
Coolly horrific, brilliantly brainy and utterly compelling -- Daily Mail on The Atlas Six
This book is half mystery, half puzzle, and wholly a delight -- Holly Black, author of Book of Night on The Atlas Six

Olivie Blake is the internationally bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Alone With You in the Ether, One For My Enemy and Masters of Death. Writing as Alexene Farol Follmuth, she’s also released the young adult rom-coms My Mechanical Romance and Twelfth Knight. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, goblin prince/toddler and rescue pit bull.