Seasonal Fears
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From New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire, Seasonal Fears is the extraordinary companion novel to Middlegame.
The king of winter and the queen of summer are dead. The fight for their crowns begins!
Melanie has a destiny, though it isn't the one everyone assumes it to be. She's delicate; she's fragile; she's dying. Now, truly, is the winter of her soul.
Harry doesn't want to believe in destiny, because that means accepting the loss of the one person who gives his life meaning, who brings summer to his world.
So, when a new road is laid out in front of them—a road that will lead through untold dangers toward a possible lifetime together—walking down it seems to be the only option.
But others are following behind, with violence in their hearts.
It looks like Destiny has a plan for them, after all....
"One must maintain a little bit of summer even in the middle of winter." —Thoreau
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Seanan McGuire. (2022). Seasonal Fears. Tor Publishing Group.
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From New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire, Seasonal Fears is the extraordinary companion novel to Middlegame.
The king of winter and the queen of summer are dead. The fight for their crowns begins!
Melanie has a destiny, though it isn't the one everyone assumes it to be. She's delicate; she's fragile; she's dying. Now, truly, is the winter of her soul.
Harry doesn't want to believe in destiny, because that means accepting the loss of the one person who gives his life meaning, who brings summer to his world.
So, when a new road is laid out in front of them—a road that will lead through untold dangers toward a possible lifetime together—walking down it seems to be the only option.
But others are following behind, with violence in their hearts.
It looks like Destiny has a plan for them, after all....
"One must maintain a little bit of summer even in the middle of winter." —Thoreau
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A Goodreads Most Anticipated Summer Read!
"A worthy, highly intelligent, wholly satisfying expansion of the Middlegame mythos that will leave readers wanting more."
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December 1, 2021
Awards-laden McGuire returns to the world of Middlegame, where the queen of summer is fading toward death and the king of winter bemoans his fate: a life without her sunshine. Then they see an alternative and take it, trailed by those who wish them harm. With a 175,000-copy first printing.
Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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Seasonal Fears is a companion novel to Middlegame (2019), adjacent to the alchemical world that led to the creation of Roger and Dodger. After 300 years of cheating the natural order of the seasons, William Monroe, the Winter King of North America, is dead, and a coronation has been called. Mel and Harry are, in some ways, a perfect high-school storybook couple--she's a cheerleader, he's the quarterback; they've been sweethearts as long as they've known how to be. When she collapses on the field the day of the Valentine's dance, so does Harry--and things only get stranger from there. A girl named Jack shows up in Mel's bedroom, claiming to be the Winter Ascendant, with news: Mel is the Winter Incarnate. If she can survive to the coronation, she'll be the Winter Queen. Harry isn't just along for the ride, though: he's caught up in his own destiny as a candidate for Summer. It is an epic road-trip novel, a meditation on the consequences of personifying nature and what happens when someone games the system, and a fitting return to McGuire's magical, alchemical world.COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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McGuire’s intricate, dense companion to 2020’s Middlegame delves ever deeper into the hidden alchemical history of her world, populating it with incarnate concepts and sinister agendas. Teen Harry March has been madly devoted to his girlfriend, Melanie Cosgrove, for as long as he can remember, though her heart condition means she likely won’t live long enough to have a future with him. Indeed, she dies during a high school football game—and promptly reanimates, her death just the start of a strange new adventure. A young woman named Jack Frost explains that Melanie and Harry are now candidates for the thrones of Winter and Summer respectively, the concept of seasons incarnated. To claim their mantles, they must travel cross-country to prove their worthiness in a magical trial, while battling their rival candidates, often to the death, along the way. Succeed and they stay together; fail and they both perish. As they master their seasonal affinities, they uncover secrets that have shaped their lives and influenced their destinies. However complicated the premise and worldbuilding may be, it’s all held together by Harry and Melanie’s unwavering partnership, and the strength of family, both blood and found. The result is a worthy, highly intelligent, wholly satisfying expansion of the Middlegame mythos that will leave readers wanting more. Agent: Diana Fox, Fox Literary.
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The king of winter and the queen of summer are dead. The fight for their crowns begins!
Melanie has a destiny, though it isn't the one everyone assumes it to be. She's delicate; she's fragile; she's dying. Now, truly, is the winter of her soul.
Harry doesn't want to believe in destiny, because that means accepting the loss of the one person who gives his life meaning, who brings summer to his world.
So, when a new road is laid out in front of them—a road that will lead through untold dangers toward a possible lifetime together—walking down it seems to be the only option.
But others are following behind, with violence in their hearts.
It looks like Destiny has a plan for them, after all....
"One must maintain a little bit of summer even in the middle of winter." —Thoreau
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