The Everlasting

Bestseller Harrow (Starling House) evokes the romance, magic, and tragedy of Arthurian legend in this breathtaking chivalric fantasy. Owen Mallory has always loved tales of Sir Una Everlasting, the mythic knight who helped Yvanne, the first queen of Dominion, gain her throne. A scholar at heart, Owen devotes himself after returning home from war to researching Una Everlasting and the history of the Middle Dominion. The Death of Una Everlasting is a book so rare that most serious scholars believe it doesn’t even exist—until it shows up on Owen’s desk one day, delivered with no return address. Desperate to keep the tome to himself, Owen brings it home and begins to translate it, only to have it stolen a few days later. Left in its place is a note card with an address, the search for which sends Owen back in time to the Middle Dominion, where he meets Una herself. As Owen leads Una to the grail and the events he knows will bring about her death, he finds it increasingly difficult to see her as a mythic hero, instead coming to know her as a fully rounded human. Told in alternating first and second person, Owen’s and Una’s timelines twine around each other as the past impacts the present impacts the past—and behind it all is a mysterious guiding hand. This impressively constructed plot keeps the pages flying on the way to a stunning finale. Harrow remains at the top of her game. (Oct.)