Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Annelie Geissler
Categories
Fantasy

THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA

Tasha Suri

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Tasha Suri comes The Isle in the Silver Sea, a heart-shattering standalone romantasy of sapphic longing, medieval folklore and a love that spans the centuries.

In an England fuelled by stories, the knight and the witch are fated to fall in love and doom each other over and over, the same tale retold over hundreds of lifetimes.

Simran is a witch of the woods. Vina is a knight of the Queen's court. When the two women begin to fall for each other, how can they surrender to their desires, when to give in is to destroy each other?

As they seek a way to break the cycle, a mysterious assassin begins targeting tales like theirs. To survive, the two will need to write a story stronger than the one that fate has given to them.

But what tale is stronger than The Knight and the Witch?

Tasha Suri is the World Fantasy Award winning author of The Burning Kingdoms Trilogy, The Books of Ambha Duology, What Souls Are Made Of and Doctor Who: The Cradle. Once a librarian, she is now a part-time writing tutor and a full-time cat and rabbit wrangler. She lives with her family in a mildly haunted house in London.

Available products
Book Published 2025-10-21 by Orbit Books

Comments

One of the more innovative and thoughtful uses of fantasy to explore colonialism and the potential poison of assimilation... Beautifully inevitable and surprising at the same time; dark, sharp, clever, lovely.

I emerged from this book feeling like I'd lived a dozen lifetimes in the blink of an eye. Folklore nerds will revel.

Grand in scope and overflowing with promise, THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA has much to enjoy as Vina and Simran enlist the help of the magical and non-magical alike to help them fight against fate and carve out a happy ever after that is uniquely theirs.

THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA has an anachronistic fairy tale vibe that sets it apart...with our leads forced to act out a legend in order to maintain the world they live in. If the doomed lovers premise wasn't already aching and beautiful, it's also sapphic.

Absolutely mesmerizing. Suri delivers another sweeping, gorgeous epic with a beating heart all of its own--one that resonates with a message as deep as the Silver Sea itself: the power of story is ours to wield.

THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA is haunting and achingly romantic. Suri has crafted a wise, magical tale of chivalry, morality, and the special kind of hope that comes from creating our own stories and futures, spied through the lens of an epic love that spans lifetimes.

A magnificent story about the strength of stories, full of grand love, adventure, and beauty! Completely captivating!

Tasha Suri's beautiful prose, with its undercurrent of warm tenderness, hides a web of escalating tension and existential dread.

THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA is a magnificent fantasy.

A glorious feat. With yearning that seeps through the very pages and an utterly spellbinding world, THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA yet again attests to the depths of Tasha Suri's storytelling.

Suri creates a sensuous and haunting story of duty, sacrifice, and love beyond time. The slow-burn romance between these two women is delightful, with humor and spirit throughout.

A haunting tale of sapphic love and cyclical fate in an alternate Britain sustained by stories that play out again and again via reincarnation... Suri crafts a rich, atmospheric world steeped in faerie bargains and medieval folklore and uses her magic system to explore themes of colonial erasure and who gets to control their own narrative... Suri's gorgeous prose and inventive premise create an immersive experience. Readers craving sapphic fantasy with folkloric elements will find this hits the spot.

Ukrainian: RM Books

A spellbinding tale that reads like a love letter - to romance, adventure, and above all else, to the epic power of story. Both timeless and novel, THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA casts an enchantment that will linger long past its final pages.

Tasha Suri writes the female characters I didn't realize I was aching to see in fantasy, to devastating effect.

THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA swept me off my feet with its lyricism, spellbinding romance, and vivid characters who breathe, love, and bleed. Gorgeously folkloric. This book is a bit of spellcraft and Suri is definitely a witch.

Tasha Suri has always had talent and verve, but with THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA she's reached a new level of accomplishment. A master at work: completely and exuberantly in control of her craft.

Simmering with tension and heartbreak, THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA combines familiar folklore with a wholly original plot, coming together into a devastating tale of love, devotion, and fate. Vina and Simran's story of duty and sacrifice is threaded with hope through steadfast found family and love that outlasts death and eternity. Suri is a master storyteller.

Fiercely tender, wildly imaginative, and deeply smart, THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA is an ode to the power of stories themselves--both to shackle us to our destinies, and to free us from them. One of my new all-time favorites.