release date: April 21, 2026
love made them enemies.
magic made them monsters.
Exiled for loving the wrong person, Oliver will do anything to get back to the boy who broke his heart. But when he meets Thea, a girl tied by blood to the monstrous Labyrinth, he’ll have to confront the magic that tore his life apart and decide if saving her means saving the world...or destroying it.
V.E. Schwab’s Shades of Power meets Pan’s Labyrinth in this lovers-to-enemies contemporary fantasy duology where a dwindling group of blood magicians try to save the world from a sentient labyrinth filled with nightmares.
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✨slow burns
✨liminal dreamscapes
✨bisexual pining
✨snarky soulmates and found family
✨ALL the hurt/comfort
✨death bargains
✨first kisses
✨last kisses
✨lovers to enemies
✨bisexual girls with swords
✨love triangles
✨found family, found mortal enemies
✨only one bed
✨angst and whump
✨unrequited love (except is it really, folks, these boys are not the smartest)
about
Michelle Kulwicki grew up in the Pacific Northwest overturning every rock and stick in an unending quest to find portals to worlds far more exciting than her own. After moving to the mountainless Midwest, she earned her bachelors and master’s degrees in music performance, and spent years in the symphony and musical theater pit circuit. She’s now a mom by day, musician by night, and writer in all the spaces in between—a life that is somewhat lacking in portals, but is still full of magic.
Her short fiction has been both Locus Recommended and Hugo nominated, and her first full length novel, At the End of the River Styx, will be debuting in Fall of 2024 from Page Street Kids.
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Michelle is represented by Becca Langton at Darley Anderson
For inquiries regarding blurbs or speaking engagements, please email michellekulwicki@gmail.com