The Knight and the Moth
Rachel Gillig, 2025
A romantasy about a knight, a gargoyle who takes idioms literally, and the hunger to be special—told by a narrator who warns that every story is part lie.
Rachel Gillig
Feels like longing, freedom and power.
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Before The Knight and the Moth, Rachel Gillig wrote the Shepherd King duology, whose magic system is built around a deck of cursed cards.
The perils of teaching a gargoyle a human figure of speech.
I confess horses are not the intelligent beasts I imagined them to be. Though I don’t think that merits the abuse they suffer postmortem.” That one took me a moment. “No one actually beats dead horses, gargoyle. It’s an expression.” “Really? How morbid. Books by Rachel Gillig
One Dark Window
Rachel Gillig, 2022
A woman with a monster in her head hunts a deck of magic cards that could cure her—or bind her tighter.
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