The Knight and the Moth

Publishes on 27th May 2025. Pre-order your copy now at (08) 9384 4423 or orders@lanebook.com.au

Darci's Review 

Rachel Gillig, renowned author of the One Dark Window duology, has an upcoming release in May. I had the privilege of reading an early copy. The Knight and the Moth is a dark gothic fantasy featuring lyrical prose, and the creation of an ethereal world and intriguing plot. Gillig’s writing is exquisite, painting the world and its characters vividly. It’s a fantastical world which I loved getting lost in.

The Knight and the Moth follows the Kingdom of Traum and its religious history through the main character of Six. Six is one of six Diviners at the Aisling Cathedral, home to the magical Aisling Spring. Each Diviner is drowned in the spring when called upon by the Abess to divine someone’s future. In each divination Traum’s Omens prophesise the future of the intended recipient, through an oar, a coin, an inkwell, a loom stone and a chime. Six’s faith in the Omens is unwavering, a testament to her strength and virtue, but this all changes the day she divines for a knight but cannot see his future.

Gillig weaves her unique worldbuilding with a fast-paced plot. She also introduces a romance sub-plot, full of a tender and deeply moving unconditional love. The Knight and the Moth is a stunning novel, perfect for fans of Gillig’s previous works, One Dark Window and Two Twisted Crowns, and Katherine Arden’s Winternight trilogy. A lyrical novel you won’t want to miss!

The Knight and the Moth is published on the 27th of May. Pre-order your copy now!

Publisher's Review 

'Dreamy prose, characters so vibrant they breathe on the page, a romance that smoulders, and a spellbinding world to get lost in. Prepare to meet your next obsession' - Rebecca Ross, author of Divine Rivals

From the New York Times million-copy bestselling author Rachel Gillig comes the next big romantasy phenomenon: a gothic, mist-cloaked tale of a prophetess who is forced on an impossible quest with the one devilishly handsome knight whose future is beyond her sight.

Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum's windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams.

Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude, heretical, and devilishly handsome, the knight Rodrick has no respect for Sybil's visions. But when Sybil's fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one, she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them. For the world outside the cathedral's cloister is wrought with peril. Only the gods have the answers she is seeking, and as much as she'd rather avoid Rodrick's dark eyes and sharp tongue, only a heretic can defeat a god.

Praise for The Knight and the Moth

'The Knight and the Moth delivers pure joy: gargoyles! gods! girls in armour! alongside a serious examination of faith, fealty, and the powers they serve. It's a fairy tale with bruised knuckles, perfectly balanced between the mythic and the desperately human. Simply stunning' - Alix E. Harrow, author of Starling House

'With the headiness of dreams and the darkness of haunted abbeys, The Knight and the Moth is dazzlingly transportive tale of love, salvation, and freedom that cements Gillig as one of the finest fantasy writers of our age. You will never want to surface from these enchanting, depthless waters' - Ava Reid, author of A Study in Drowning

'I'm obsessed with Rachel Gillig. The Knight and the Moth is achingly romantic, richly imagined, and told with a gossamer delicacy that keeps the pages flying' - Hannah Whitten, author of The Foxglove King

'A gothic, romantic fairy tale that feels like falling into a dark, strange dream - one you won't want to wake from. Gillig has done it again - I'm obsessed' - Amelie Wen Zhao, author of Song of Silver, Flame Like Night