Review copies of THE BOOK OF ATRIX WOLFE: 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION by World Fantasy Award–winning author Patricia A. McKillip are now available via EDELWEISS and NETGALLEY.

Connoisseurs of fine fantasy will delight in this expertly wrought tale.

Publishers Weekly

Steeped in medieval legends of the wild huntsman, living trees, and shape changers, McKillip’s tale is decidedly atmospheric, complex, compelling, and filled with rich imagery.

Booklist

THE BOOK OF ATRIX WOLFE
30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

by
Patricia A. McKillip

ISBN: 978-1-61696-400-9 (print); 978-1-61696-401-6 (digital)

Published: February 25, 2025

Available Format(s): trade paperback; digital

This brand new edition celebrates the 30th anniversary of a classic, luminous novel from the World Fantasy Award–winning author Patricia A. McKillip (The Forgotten Beasts of Eld). In McKillip’s stunning cinematic prose, the human world and the realm of faeries dangerously entwine through chaotic magic. Discover the spellbinding legend of generational atonement and redemption between a reluctant mage, a powerful wizard, a struggling heir, fae royalty, and a mysterious scullery maid.

When the White Wolf descends upon the battlefield, the results are disastrous. His fateful decision to end a war with powerful magic changes the destiny of four kingdoms: warlike Kardeth, resilient Pelucir, idyllic Chaumenard, and the mysterious Elven realm.

Twenty years later, Prince Talis, orphaned heir to Pelucir, is meant to be the savior of the realm. However, the prince is neither interested in ruling nor a particularly skilled mage. Further, he is obsessed with a corrupted spellbook, and he is haunted by visions from the woods.

The legendary mage Atrix Wolfe has forsaken magic and the world of men. But the Queen of the Wood, whose fae lands overlap Pelucir’s bloody battlefield, is calling Wolfe back. Her consort and her daughter have been missing since the siege, and if Wolfe cannot intervene, the Queen will keep a sacrifice for her own.