The Duke Steals Hearts & Other Body Parts
$29.93
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
13 May 2025
Summary
A trans teen who steals and ransoms body parts with magic investigates a string of missing girls—falling in love with one of them from afar.
Wielding a magic that allows him to pop off limbs, con artist Phyllis steals body parts and his partner Lucent ransoms them. Everyone who knows about Phyllis’s magic is afraid of him—except for Lucent. But his partner’s love comes with one condition: Phyllis must keep stealing. But when a mark can’t afford ransom for his missing nose, Phyllis los…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798890032317 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Elias Cold |
| Publisher: | Page Street Publishing Co. |
| Imprint: | Page Street Publishing Co. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 13 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 210mm |
| Audience Age: | 14 |
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Critics Review
”[A] quirky, macabre trans romcom about embracing your power (and getting the gradually decaying dead girl).”
–BCCB
“Cold stitches together a tone-perfect queer horror, rich with found family and all the necromancy a reader could want.”
–Booklist
”[U]sing an atmospheric tone and a bloodlessly macabre plot […] Cold asks us what it means to be alive in this entertaining read.”
–Booklist
“I found myself tearing through the book to uncover every twist Cold delivers in their distinctive, delightful voice. The Duke stole my heart right out of my chest, and he’ll steal yours too.”
–S. Hati, author of And the Sky Bled
“Delightfully gruesome. Part murder mystery, part Regency romp, Elias Cold’s queer horror-tinged tale kept me hooked to the very last page. I loved it.”
–Alicia Jasinska, author of The Midnight Girls and This Fatal Kiss
“Darkly witty, richly atmospheric, and achingly tender. With incisive commentary on gender and identity–alongside a fresh magic system–queer readers will be both captivated and comforted by Cold’s YA debut.”
–Cass Biehn, author of Vesuvius
“Delightfully original. This is a world readers will want to lose themselves in over and over again.”
–David Ferraro, author of A Vile Season and The Alchemy of Moonlight
Elias Cold
Elias Cold (they/them) is a speculative fiction writer, editor, and former medical geneticist. Their work tends to center queer and neurodivergent characters and has appeared in Rabbit Journal and Andromeda Spaceways Magazine. They live in rural Australia with their two cats.
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