The Locked Library August 2024: A Blessing & A Curse

Featured book: The Spice Gate by Prashanth Srivatsa

Welcome back to the Library, Readers.

Get your hands on one of the limited remaining copies of The Locked Library's August 2024 box, Back To School, featuring The Spice Gate by Prashanth Srivatsa.

“Sorry, chacha, let me tell you another day how desperate I am.”

Step through the Gate into a world where spice is as valuable as gold, where trade is made between eight kingdoms using their spice as currency. The burden of carrying the spices from kingdom to kingdom through gates falls upon the marked ones, gatecaste. A Spice Carrier yearning for a life beyond subjection finds his story taking a dramatic turn with the materialisation of new spice.

Our Locked Library exclusive edition will feature:

🗝 A bespoke re-design cover unique to the subscription box 

🗝 Digital edges

🗝 A foil board design 

🗝 Illustrated endpapers 

🗝 An inbound letter from the author

Bookish TLDR:

🗝️ Adult High Sci-Fi Fantasy, Standalone
🗝️ Political Turmoil; Rebellion; Portal Magic; M/F Forbidden Love; PoC cast; World inspired by Indian Culture
🗝️ Perfect for fans of: Will of the Many, The City of Brass, The Bone Shard Daughter & The Grace of Kings.

📷 by @readreadnosleeprepeat

Purchase of this box will not sign you up to the monthly subscription as this sits outside the normal monthly box.