The Cradle of Eternal Night is Out Now!

I am delighted to reveal the interior illustrations for The Cradle of Eternal Night for your viewing pleasure! The Cradle of Eternal Night is LADZ’s newest F/F dark fantasy novel, with illustrations by me.

The cover and interior illustrations were drawn digitally, but the chapter headers, which we’ve been teasing, are actually hand carved linocut prints! I created them specifically for this project!

THE BOOK IS OUT! Signed physical copies 🔗https://ladzwriting.itch.io/the-cradle-of-eternal-night

Ebooks 🔗https://books2read.com/thecradleofeternalnight

In a land lit only by the counterfeit warmth of magical technology, the Kler prays for the return of the sun, the moons, and the stars. Ceaseless night and the beasts lurking in the darkness keep the congregation within the Kolebka Wiecznej Nocy trapped in mirthless vigil. Their towns remain quiet as graveyards as they wait for day to come again. What no one knows about this ceaseless night is that the Kler themselves can end it. But they haven’t, and they won’t.

Long ago, the Kler banished the sun worshipers, but a heretical sect made the journey back to the land of darkness. Now, only one remains carrying their purpose heavy on her shoulders: a maverick technomancer named Basia. She alone will bring back the light, or no one will.

Armed with naught but her own cleverness and a sword imbued with sun-embraced charms, she searches for the Kler’s secrets and finds herself in Tawerna. With the Kler on her heels, she infiltrates a private feast and catches Hanka, a docile bard, in the middle of planning her own escape into the world beyond. Hanka wants nothing to do with the heretical outsider until she discovers that her purpose aligns with the darkness buried inside herself. Hanka knows the secrets the Kler keeps, and she knows just where to go to expose their lies.

With only each other and their heretical magic to rely on, Basia and Hanka face the eternal night and wonder, are they truly enough to bring light back to the world?

Trigger warnings: Body horror, cannibalism (both of self and others), vomiting, burning bodies, blood, gore, death of loved ones, depiction of a panic attack, trypophobia, explicit sexual content (including fingering, cunnilingus, massaging), and dubiously consensual monsterfucking.

As the illustrator on Cradle, I hope you enjoy thirsty sword lesbians, cannibalism, blood, burning flesh and the hairy armpit agenda.

Signed copy includes my signature 🍅