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Goodreads Preview Pick: Fall 2025's New Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Books In this stellar debut fantasy, a trickster Fox god challenges an underachieving acolyte to save herself by saving her own ancestors. But are Nesi and her new friends from the past prepared to defeat the ferocious Wolfhounds of Zemin? "Stunning imagination, daring premises, and deep character dives. A new author to watch."
--N. K. Jemisin, author of the Broken Earth series [STARRED REVIEW] "A marvelous and heartbreaking tale."
--Library Journal Nesi is desperate to earn the patronage of one of the Ninety-Nine Pillars of Heaven. As a child with godly blood in her, if she cannot earn a divine chaperone, she will never be allowed to leave her temple home. But with ninety-six failed auditions and few options left, Nesi makes a risky prayer to T'sidaan, the Fox of Tricks. In folk tales, the Fox is a lovable prankster. But despite their humor and charm, T'sidaan, and their audition, is no joke. They throw Nesi back in time three hundred years, when her homeland is occupied by the brutal Wolfhounds of Zemin. Now, Nesi must learn a trickster's guile to snatch a fortress from the disgraced and exiled 100th Pillar: The Wolf of the Hunt.
Author: Martin Cahill
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Published: 09/16/2025
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.12w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9781616964443
ISBN10: 1616964448
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Fantasy | Action & Adventure
- Fiction | Fantasy | Dark Fantasy
- Fiction | Fantasy | Historical
--N. K. Jemisin, author of the Broken Earth series [STARRED REVIEW] "A marvelous and heartbreaking tale."
--Library Journal Nesi is desperate to earn the patronage of one of the Ninety-Nine Pillars of Heaven. As a child with godly blood in her, if she cannot earn a divine chaperone, she will never be allowed to leave her temple home. But with ninety-six failed auditions and few options left, Nesi makes a risky prayer to T'sidaan, the Fox of Tricks. In folk tales, the Fox is a lovable prankster. But despite their humor and charm, T'sidaan, and their audition, is no joke. They throw Nesi back in time three hundred years, when her homeland is occupied by the brutal Wolfhounds of Zemin. Now, Nesi must learn a trickster's guile to snatch a fortress from the disgraced and exiled 100th Pillar: The Wolf of the Hunt.
Author: Martin Cahill
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Published: 09/16/2025
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.12w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9781616964443
ISBN10: 1616964448
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Fantasy | Action & Adventure
- Fiction | Fantasy | Dark Fantasy
- Fiction | Fantasy | Historical
About the Author
Martin Cahill has published short fiction in venues including Fireside, Reactor, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, and Nightmare. Cahill's stories "The Fifth Horseman" and "Godmeat" were respectively nominated for the Ignyte Award and included in The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019. He was also one of the writers on Batman: The Blind Cut and a contributor to Critical Role: Vox Machina - Stories Untold. Cahill, who works at Erewhon Books, lives just outside New York City.