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Into the Midnight Wood
  • Published: 28 January 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241782835
  • Imprint: Viking Fiction
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $38.00
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Into the Midnight Wood

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A whimsical queer fairy tale that will break your heart and put it back together again; for fans of the cosiness of T.J. Klune and the spicy bite of Freya Marske.

There are at least 100 things wrong with Meredith Schwarzwelder. In fact, keeping track of these things is the only way David Carew has managed to remain living with him for as long as he has. Meredith is an irredeemable eccentric who flirts with everyone in his path (#3 on the list), cries at anything (#35), makes the worst coffee in the world (#70), and talks to mice, or imagines he does (#50).

It’s bad enough living with such a person on the edge of the Midnight Wood, but when magic starts to seep from the wood and a dark being emerges with a sinister plan involving Meredith, David decides that it’s time to leave the cottage, and his roommate, behind. Then Meredith’s brother gets engaged to the daughter of David’s boss, and he sees the perfect opportunity to advance his career and make his escape.

With wedding bells sounding and the dangers of the Midnight Wood encroaching, David realizes there’s much more hiding beneath the surface of his roommate’s seemingly carefree charm, and that perhaps his own exasperation carries more fondness than he’d like to admit.
  • Published: 28 January 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241782835
  • Imprint: Viking Fiction
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $38.00
Categories:

Praise for Into the Midnight Wood

Absolutely irresistibly charming... A gorgeous love story!

Sarah Beth Durst, New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop

The romantic, mist-cloaked fairytale of my dreams. I would take an arrow for David and Meredith. In between swooning over their sharp-witted and steamy romance, I was absolutely cackling at their banter

Sydney J. Shields, #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Honey Witch

This is a story about love as both wound and remedy, about shattering the categories that make us legible but small. In slow-burning recognition, we find something radical: two queer people learning the real magic is in the terrifying act of being fully seen

Scene Magazine

This quirky, magical, opposites-attract queer romance is given depth as it... portrays closed-off hearts, misunderstandings, and intense emotions in an utterly charming, steamy, and heartfelt story

Library Journal

This book is laugh-out-loud funny... Well worth the journey if you’re looking for something enchantingly eccentric

Hippo Press