The Everlasting

An instant Sunday Times bestseller, The Everlasting is a time-travelling, genre-defying, utterly fantasical quest of love and endurance. Alix E. Harrow, author of Starling House, delivers a work of romantic fantasy unlike any other.

Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, then died for queen and country. Her legend lives on, but her life as it truly happened has been long forgotten. Centuries later, Owen Mallory – failed soldier, struggling scholar – falls in love with her tale. It takes him to war, to the archives and then into the past itself.

Una and Owen become tangled, bound to retell her story over and over, no matter what it costs. But it always ends the same way. If they want to rewrite Una’s legend, and finally engineer a new ending, they’ll have to confront its author – and change history itself.

Review

The Everlasting belonged on last year’s best romance list . . . a truly glorious romance, cutting as a blade and aching with near-hopeless yearning ― The New York Times

A book so wildly original as to be unlike any other . . . Simply a masterpiece -- Laura Steven, New York Times bestselling author of Our Infinite Fates

Opening this book is like being handed a sharp, sexy onion: each layer of narrative that unwraps is more devastating than the last, and by the time you reach its tender heart, you're probably crying. Alix E. Harrow has created an exquisite, epic romance that also takes you by the throat and forces you to consider the terrible costs of history, loyalty and legend-making -- Freya Marske, Sunday Times bestselling author of A Marvellous Light

If you’re looking for an original entry to the genre, with interesting prose and stylistic choices . . . this could be the one for you ― The Times

As dark and oppressive as it is utterly sublime, The Everlasting is a lush fantasy that also holds up a mythological mirror to our present-day neuroses, honing its edge on our need for identity and belonging. It's also got a buff lady knight and a cowardly scholar who worships the ground she walks on. Anyway, I loved every word of it -- Olivia Atwater, author of Half a Soul

Incandescent. The Everlasting should enshrine Alix E. Harrow as one of the finest writers of our generation and if it doesn't, there's something seriously wrong with the world -- Cassandra Khaw, author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth

Gorgeous and quintessentially Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting is a meticulously layered time-loop story with devastating emotional impact that grapples with the toll of loyalty and duty, the weaponization of myth and the true cost of nation and empire. A highly anticipated and deeply moving epic -- KelleyAnn Thai, Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore

About the Author

Alix E. Harrow is an ex-historian with lots of opinions and excessive library fines, currently living in Kentucky with her husband and their semi-feral children. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. Her full-length novels include The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Once and Future Witches and Starling House.