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A fraudulent teen quester must team up with a brooding, royal rival on a perilous adventure to save her brother’s life in this cosy young adult romantasy full of mythical creatures by the New York Times bestselling author of Spell Bound and So This is Ever...
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A fraudulent teen quester must team up with a brooding, royal rival on a perilous adventure to save her brother’s life in this cosy young adult romantasy full of mythical creatures by the New York Times bestselling author of Spell Bound and So This is Ever After.
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A fraudulent teen quester must team up with a brooding, royal rival on a perilous adventure to save her brother’s life in this cosy young adult romantasy full of mythical creatures by the New York Times bestselling author of Spell Bound and So This is Ever After.
Seventeen-year-old Ellinore has one final quest: find the mythical Elder Beast, and save the life of her reckless twin, Zig. This should be easy for the hero with the best questing record in the kingdom. But there’s a problem – all of Ellinore’s triumphs have been a lie.
Joined by a ragtag crew, including Aven – the infuriatingly charming royal who’s become her fiercest rival – Ellinore must venture on her first ever quest and decide who she really wants to be: the fraud the kingdom celebrates, the hero it needs, or someone entirely new.
Funny, subversive, romantic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author F. T. Lukens. Look out for So This is Ever After, Spell Bound, In Deeper Waters, Otherworldly and Love at Second Sight.
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ISBN: 9781398547322
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 June 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Audience: Children, Teenage
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 19.0mm
Width: 3302.0mm
Height: 5029.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 320
About the Author
F.T. Lukens is a New York Times bestselling author of YA speculative fiction including the novels Spell Bound, So This Is Ever After, and In Deeper Waters (2022 ALA Rainbow Booklist; Junior Library Guild Selection), as well as other science fiction and fantasy works. Their contemporary fantasy novel The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic was a 2017 Cybils Award finalist in YA Speculative Fiction and won the Bisexual Book Award for Speculative Fiction. F.T. resides in North Carolina with their spouse, three kids, three dogs, and three cats.
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