In a bidding war almost as heated as the sexual tension between Kingfisher and Saeris, Netflix won the rights to adapt Callie Hart’s romantasy novel, Quicksilver.
According to Deadline, the deal was in the seven-figures, reflecting the novel’s popularity within a popular subgenre, in no small part because of its following on TikTok.
Here’s the official blurb of the story:
Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen’s reservoirs for as long as she can remember. When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently reopens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice and snow. The Fae have always been the stuff of myth, of legend, of nightmares… but it turns out they’re real, and Saeris has landed herself right in the middle of a centuries-long conflict that might just get her killed. The first of her kind to tread the frozen mountains of Yvelia in over a thousand years, Saeris mistakenly binds herself to Kingfisher, a handsome Fae warrior, who has secrets and nefarious agendas of his own. He will use her Alchemist’s magic to protect his people, no matter what it costs him… or her. Kingfisher’s past is murky. His attitude stinks. And he’s the only way Saeris is going to make it home.
Spoiler: Saeris and Kingfisher have the hots for each other and conjoin in various ways, magical and otherwise, throughout the book’s 624 pages.
Quicksilver is the first in the planned Fae & Alchemy trilogy. It was Hart’s first foray into fantasy, though she is a prodigious romance author with several series published, including the Crooked Sinners, Blood & Roses, and Dirty Nasty Freaks books.
No news yet on when the adaptation will go into production. Let the dream-casting of Kingfisher and Saeris, however, begin!
