The Summer War by Naomi Novik

Author: Naomi NovikPublisher: Del ReyHardcover: 144 pagesBook Club Price: $22.00Printing: 1stISBN: 978-0593984710Release Date: September 16, 2025Shipping Date: September 15, 2025Note: Unsigned book  Book Description: In this poignant, heartfelt novella from the New York Times bestselling author of Spinning Silver and the Scholomance trilogy, a young witch who has inadvertently cursed her brother to live a life without love must find a way to undo her spell.Celia discovered her talent for magic on the day her beloved oldest brother, Argent, left home. Furious at him for abandoning her in a war-torn land, she lashed out, not realizing her childish, angry words would become imbued with the power of prophecy, dooming him to a life without love.While Argent wanders the world, forced to seek only fame and glory instead of the love and belonging he truly desires, Celia attempts to undo the curse she placed on him. Yet even as she grows from a girl to a woman, she cannot find the solution—un