This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me

Transported to the ruthless fantasy world from her beloved but unfinished book series, Maggie must find a way to survive – as a great war looms ahead. Spellbinding epic fantasy from bestselling author Ilona Andrews.



She knows exactly how their story ends.
Now she’s fighting to rewrite it.

This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me is the beginning of the most epic adventure yet from bestselling author Ilona Andrews. For fans of Samantha Shannon, Sarah J. Maas, Danielle L. Jensen and isekai portal fantasy.

When Maggie wakes up cold, filthy and naked in a gutter, she recognizes Kair Toren. It’s a city she knows intimately from the pages of a famously unfinished fantasy series. And what are her only tools for navigating this gritty world of rival warlords, magic and mayhem? Her encyclopaedic knowledge of the books and their characters' fates.

She quickly discovers she can’t be killed (though many will try), but the same can’t be said for those she’s learning to love – a motley band including a former lady’s maid, an assassin and a dangerously appealing soldier . . .

Soon, instead of trying to return home, she finds herself enmeshed in the schemes – and attentions – of duelling princes, dukes and villains. All this while trying to save them and their kingdom from the ending she’s seen on the page: a cataclysmic war.

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‘I was captivated from the very first line’
– Danielle L. Jensen, author of A Fate Inked in Blood

‘Fantasy, romance, danger – this book has it all. Addictive. I need the sequel stat’
– Felicia Day, author of Third Eye

‘A perfect blend of humour and high stakes’
– Katee Robert, author of Neon Gods

‘Absolutely brilliant! This is the kind of book that will make you forget the world exists’
– Sarah Beth Durst, author of The Spellshop