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The Knight and the Moth
From BookTok sensation and NYT bestselling author Rachel Gillig, comes the next big romantasy phenomenon: a gothic, mist-cloaked tale of a prophetess who is forced beyond the safety of her cloister on an impossible quest to defeat the gods with the one 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.
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.
400 pages, Hardcover
Expected publication May 20, 2025
About the author
Rachel Gillig
4 books10.2k followersRachel Gillig was born and raised on the California coast. She is a writer, with a B.A. in Literary Theory and Criticism from UC Davis. If she is not ensconced in blankets dreaming up her next novel, Rachel is in her garden or walking with her husband, son, and their poodle, Wally.
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January 21, 2024After the Shepherd King duology, I’ll read anything Rachel Gillig writes. First book on 2025 shelf, so excited!!
Also, MOTH IS IN THE TITLE so yeah I’ll be anticipating this until it releases!
Also, MOTH IS IN THE TITLE so yeah I’ll be anticipating this until it releases!
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March 31, 2024MOTHER IS FINALLY FEEDING US!!!
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January 21, 2024like i said, i will read everything rachel writes
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September 20, 2024Can we just accept that I deserve an arc for this bc I’m LITERALLY her biggest fan 😔
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August 26, 2024it actually seems fun = give it to me now rachel
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August 23, 2024this is my most anticipated release of 2025 and that’s saying something because it’s rumoured Emily Henry has a new release in 2025 as well 🤩 Rachel don’t do me dirty girl
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February 15, 2024Rachel can just write "hi" and i'll still rate it 5 stars
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January 21, 2024SO EXCITED
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August 25, 2024"only a heretic can defeat a god" i need this EXPEDITIOUSLY
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September 20, 2024the fact that the love interest is directly inspired by tamino?? yeah i smashed that want to read button
also another knight book being published in 2025 count 2 of ????
also another knight book being published in 2025 count 2 of ????
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June 1, 2024watch me obsess over this
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September 8, 2024Yaaassssss! I have been long awaiting another series from Rachel, I’m so EXCITED for this!
Shelved as 'unreleased'
February 15, 2024say less 💳💳
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May 29, 2024Saw the publication date and I was like, May 20th?? It’s out???! Then I was like, wait there’s no cover… oh, 2025 🥲
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February 15, 2024I'm sorry for the person I'll become when this comes out.
February 19, 2024
IM SO FUCKING EXCITED TO READ THIS BOOK!
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August 25, 2024MOTHER HAS RETURNED🙏
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August 22, 2024Ok so what have you gotten for me Rachel?
I expect for you to be great.
One dark window duology was ok for me but not really so good.
I expect for you to be great.
One dark window duology was ok for me but not really so good.
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August 30, 2024Im already sitting at the bookstore even though the staff just told me this doesn’t come out until 2025. I need this book like I need air
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August 1, 2024Show it to me please, send it to me Rachel
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July 30, 2024I yearn for this more than Ravyn needs Elspeth, more than Elm pines for Ione and more than the Nightmare yaps about everyone’s stupidity.
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August 26, 2024SHOW IT TO ME RACHEL
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June 24, 2024You know this story...
Though you do not remember it.
I'll tell it to you as best as I can and promise to be honest in my talebearing.
If I'm not... that's hardly my fault.
To tell a story is in some part to tell a lie. Isn't it?
The first lines of the book and I'm HOOKED!
Though you do not remember it.
I'll tell it to you as best as I can and promise to be honest in my talebearing.
If I'm not... that's hardly my fault.
To tell a story is in some part to tell a lie. Isn't it?
The first lines of the book and I'm HOOKED!
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August 11, 2024SHOW IT TO ME RACHEL
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August 23, 2024GIVE IT TO ME RACHEL!!!!
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August 24, 2024If Gillig writes it, I devour it.
🥹m still crying for the Shepard King duology damn it this better help me even if just a little bit
🥹m still crying for the Shepard King duology damn it this better help me even if just a little bit
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February 14, 2024I cannot wait to have this in my hands!!!
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January 27, 2024so stoked
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May 6, 2024This author has definitely become one of my favorites with her incredible duology. Her writing and the building of her characters and universe is amazing. I can't wait to read more from this author!!!
March 14, 2024
I can't wait. I'm so sad she only has two books out. I LOVE the picture she paints in my mind, the words, descriptions, atmosphere, story plot, magic, I am reading every book she releases. I've decided officially.
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