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A scholar and returning war veteran researches the knight Sir Una Everlasting and travels through time with her

The Everlasting

by Alix E. Harrow

2025400 pagesModerate readSteady pace
★ Hugo Award for Best Novel, 2026

A scholar and a knight, each addressing the other across time

Tor Publishing Group published the novel on 28 October 2025, and it runs to 400 pages. After returning home from war, the scholar Owen Mallory researches Sir Una Everlasting, a knight who helped Queen Yvanne form the nation of Dominion. He receives a long-lost manuscript of her story and travels back and forth through time with Una. It has two second-person narrators, each addressing the other. Sara Wood made the cover.

More about this book

Who

Owen Mallory, Sir Una Everlasting and Queen Yvanne.

World

The nation of Dominion, at two times in its history.

What makes it different

It has two second-person narrators addressing each other. It also won the 2026 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel.

Feel

Wistful and intimate.

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Further reading

About the author

Alix E. Harrow1 book on Tori Books