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A FABLE FOR HOLLOW CREATURES
The Witcher meets Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Fairies in this morally complex fairy-tale inspired monster hunting novel.
Jierz has a complicated relationship with monsters.
She used to own an inn in a small town until her life was upended when a ruseizhe came to her town, planted worms in people's heads, and turned all her family and friends' dead bodies into mindless puppets that did its bidding. She escaped and killed the puppets but never managed to find to ruseizhe and kill it.
Vengeance has consumed her ever since, which is why she started working as a monster hunter. But when her team encounters a monster that kills half of them, she's forced to call for help from the last person she wants to seeHalesz. He's a kerzin, an emotion stealing creature with a cheerful personalityand the reason that Jierz survived the ruseizhe. He also spent the year before the ruseizhe living in her town and stealing her emotions to manipulate her without her knowledge.
But beggars can't be choosers in the game of life and death, and Halesz, for all his faults (and there are many), comes running to save her. The problem is, now he won't leave. He's determined to win her affection backwithout any emotional magic at all this timeor so he claims. And he's going to prove himself by helping her hunt down the ruseizhe so she can finally get her vengeance.
When they follow a promising lead about people disappearing from remote fishing villages, things quickly become more dangerous than expected. Monsters lurk in every corner, and none of them want Jierz or her companions there.
Just because they're monster hunters doesn't mean that they can't be hunted too.
RR/ Rebecca Schaeffer is the critically acclaimed author of Not Even Bones and its sequels, the Webtoon adaption of which has garnered over a hundred million reads and nearly 2 million subscribers. Her City of Nightmares duology was one of the BBC's most anticipated books of 2023, and one of Kirkus's best books of 2023. Episodes of her comic Dead But Not Gone air weekly on Webtoon and her next book, A Fable for Hollow Creatures, comes out in fall 2026 from Ace.
She used to own an inn in a small town until her life was upended when a ruseizhe came to her town, planted worms in people's heads, and turned all her family and friends' dead bodies into mindless puppets that did its bidding. She escaped and killed the puppets but never managed to find to ruseizhe and kill it.
Vengeance has consumed her ever since, which is why she started working as a monster hunter. But when her team encounters a monster that kills half of them, she's forced to call for help from the last person she wants to seeHalesz. He's a kerzin, an emotion stealing creature with a cheerful personalityand the reason that Jierz survived the ruseizhe. He also spent the year before the ruseizhe living in her town and stealing her emotions to manipulate her without her knowledge.
But beggars can't be choosers in the game of life and death, and Halesz, for all his faults (and there are many), comes running to save her. The problem is, now he won't leave. He's determined to win her affection backwithout any emotional magic at all this timeor so he claims. And he's going to prove himself by helping her hunt down the ruseizhe so she can finally get her vengeance.
When they follow a promising lead about people disappearing from remote fishing villages, things quickly become more dangerous than expected. Monsters lurk in every corner, and none of them want Jierz or her companions there.
Just because they're monster hunters doesn't mean that they can't be hunted too.
RR/ Rebecca Schaeffer is the critically acclaimed author of Not Even Bones and its sequels, the Webtoon adaption of which has garnered over a hundred million reads and nearly 2 million subscribers. Her City of Nightmares duology was one of the BBC's most anticipated books of 2023, and one of Kirkus's best books of 2023. Episodes of her comic Dead But Not Gone air weekly on Webtoon and her next book, A Fable for Hollow Creatures, comes out in fall 2026 from Ace.
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Published 2026-10-01 by Ace Books |