The Maiden and Her Monster
11 September 2025Imprint: Tor
Synopsis
The forest eats the girls who wander out after dark.
As the healer’s daughter, Malka has seen how the wood’s curse has plagued her village. But the Ozmini Church only comes to collect its tithe, not to listen to heretics with false stories of monsters in the trees. So when a clergy girl wanders too close to the forest and Malka’s...
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11 September 2025400 pages
9781035048793Imprint: Tor
Reviews
A dark and endlessly enchanting fairy tale, unfurled in frost and wood-smoke, the kind that is whispered by candlelight and brushes up against history itself. I adored every pageAva Reid, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wolf and the Woodsman
Blending tradition, faith and folklore with a deft hand, Martinez crafts a profound tale of self-acceptance and the bittersweet price of progress, woven through on a thread of unyielding hopeK. M. Enright, Sunday Times bestselling author of Mistress of Lies
Martinez delivers a taut and delicious debut, threading a sultry romance and tense political intrigue through an atmospheric and haunting world inspired by Jewish myth Laura R. Samotin, author of The Sins on Their Bones
An exquisite debut about an eldest daughter and how far she would go to protect her family. Malka's journey toward finding confidence in herself and falling in love with a certain surly golem is as legendary as the myths peppered throughout the story. This book is an instant classic Kamilah Cole, bestselling author of So Let Them Burn
