We have a double Friday the 13th treat for you: we’ve got the newly revealed cover for the gothic, foxy The Brides of High Hill, and a special Nghi Vo announcement for fans of the Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle.
Tor Publishing Group is thrilled to announce that Ruoxi Chen has acquired World English rights to three more standalone novellas in the Singing Hills Cycle from Diana Fox at Fox Literary.
Look for more stories following the Cleric Chih, their disrespectful neixin Almost Brilliant, and a world of empresses, ghosts, bandits, war mammoths, and myths that sink into your bones in 2025 and beyond.
But first, take a look at the gorgeous cover for The Brides of High Hill, which will hit bookshelves in May 2024.
Nghi Vo’s Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle returns with a standalone gothic mystery that unfolds in the empire of Ahn.
“A remarkable accomplishment of storytelling.”—NPR on The Empress of Salt and Fortune
“Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today.”—Taylor Jenkins Reid on Siren Queen
The Cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful young bride to her wedding to the aging ruler of a crumbling estate situated at the crossroads of dead empires. The bride’s party is welcomed with elaborate courtesies and extravagant banquets, but between the frightened servants and the cryptic warnings of the lord’s mad son, they quickly realize that something is haunting the shadowed halls.
As Chih and the bride-to-be explore empty rooms and desolate courtyards, they are drawn into the mystery of what became of Lord Guo’s previous wives and the dark history of Do Cao itself. But as the wedding night draws to its close, Chih will learn at their peril that not all monsters are to be found in the shadows; some monsters hide in plain sight.
The Singing Hills Cycle has been shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award, the Locus Award, and the Ignyte Award, and has won the Crawford Award and the Hugo Award.
The novellas are standalone stories linked by the Cleric Chih, and may be read in any order.
The Empress of Salt and Fortune
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
Into the Riverlands
Mammoths at the Gates
The Brides of High Hill
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The Brides of High Hill
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The Empress of Salt and Fortune
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When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
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Into the Riverlands
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Mammoths at the Gate
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Nghi Vo is the author of the novels Siren Queen and The Chosen and the Beautiful, as well as the acclaimed novellas of the Singing Hills Cycle, which begins with The Empress of Salt and Fortune, a Locus and Ignyte Award finalist and the winner of the Crawford Award and the Hugo Award. Born in Illinois, she now lives on the shores of Lake Michigan. She believes in the ritual of lipstick, the power of stories, and the right to change your mind.
