What if you woke up inside your favorite unfinished fantasy series — and discovered the world had no intention of playing by the rules?
In Ilona Andrews' wildly imaginative new novel, Maggie goes to bed in her Texas apartment and wakes up cold, naked, and starving in the grimy streets of Kair Toren — the medieval city she knows chapter and verse from the dark fantasy series she's been obsessively rereading for a decade. Her encyclopedic knowledge of the plot should be her superpower. Except the story keeps going off-script, the characters she loves can die even if she can't, and knowing how things are *supposed* to end may not be enough to stop them.
Part portal fantasy, part political thriller, part slow-burn romance — *This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me* is a love letter to fantasy readers that asks some surprisingly sharp questions: What does it mean to try to save a world you only know from the page? And what happens when the fictional people you love become real?
Come ready to talk about Maggie's impossible choices, the meta layers of a reader trapped in her own fandom, and whether knowledge is truly power — or just another way to be surprised.
