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Maggie The Undying: Title Reveal

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We interrupt this scheduled broadcast with breaking news.

Graphic showing a black placeholder cover to TOR logo. Release date: March 31, 2026. Title: This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me. Author: Ilona Andrews. Cover with sprayed edges to be revealed.

Text of the Announcement:

This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews

Game of Thrones meets Outlander in This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me

When Maggie wakes up, cold, naked, and filthy in Kair Toren, a city in the kingdom of Rellas, she recognizes it immediately. It’s the world she knows intimately from the pages of an unfinished dark fantasy series she’s been obsessively reading and re-reading while waiting years for the final novel. With no idea how or why she landed in this gritty, violent world, she’s determined to survive until she can figure out how to get home with her only tools – an encyclopedic knowledge of the plot, setting, and the characters’ actions, motivations, and fates: information she can sell to the highest bidder – all while staying under the radar so as not to change the very information she plans to barter.

Soon Maggie discovers another surprising “skill”: she cannot be killed (though many will try.) And as she becomes more attached to the motley band she’s somehow gathered – which includes a former lady’s maid, a deadly assassin, a dangerous soldier, and various outrageous magic creatures – she abandons all thoughts of lying low for her own good. Instead she finds herself trying to save them, and the Kingdom of Rellas from the cataclysmic war she knows is coming.

And then there is a nice paragraph about us and our writing stuff.

To reiterate:

Series title: Maggie the Undying.

Book 1 Title: This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me.

Book 1 Release date: March 31, 2026

Why is this announcement happening now?

Because TOR has learned that the Book Devouring Horde is not to be denied. They were planning to keep the title and release date under wraps until we had the cover, but it was concluded by all that since this book will be presented at London Book Fair next week, BDH will surely find out the details and will blast them all over the internet.

Congratulations, you are mighty!

How dark and gritty is this?

As we are finishing up the edits – page 649 of 808 – actually, not that dark and gritty. The Game of Thrones in the blurb above refers to the epic fantasy nature of the series and the Outlander reference is about the portal nature of the books, where the main character is transported into another world.

There are some tough scenes, but it’s nothing that exceeds our usual. If you’ve read Kate Daniels or Hidden Legacy, you should be fine. There is no on page rape, although sexual assault does happen in this world. The book overall has an uplifting trajectory.

Is this truly a fantasy?

Yes. Knights, assassins, weird magical beasts, swordfights, unhinged mages, the whole thing. This is meant to be a world of epic fantasy tropes.

Is there romance?

Yes. There is a romantic arc, but this is not a romance. This is an epic fantasy. That said, if you are a romance reader, you will likely enjoy this.

Is this one of those stories where it was all a dream and she wakes up and nothing changed and she is back in her own world…

No. I hate the dream thing. Not a dream. We would not put you through an emotional wringer to just then make it not matter.

That’s it. More to come, as our agent likes to say.

PS. Mod R has a fun post which will go out on Monday.

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  2. Book 1 Release date: March 31, 2026

    You mean I have to wait a whole year plus three weeks to devour this book?
    NOT FAIR!!!

    You really have me fully hooked-on

  6. Excellent! Good to get a spoiler-free reassurance that it’s not gonna wrap with Maggie waking up from a long detailed dream; that sort of thing always frustrated me to no end.

  7. Interestingly enough,m when I was guessing when in the first quarter the book would be released, I picked March 3rd and marked it on my tablet’s calendar. Well, I had to do something to soothe my inquiring mind, now didn’t I? At least until we got a firm release date, ANYTHING was better than nothing. So, imagine my surprise when I happily went forward into my calendar to mark the much anticipated release date of March 31, and found out my guesstimate was only off by 3 weeks! And here I was thinking that I was probably being over optimistic by a month (or more if there was slippage) Woo HOO!

    Maybe I should take up fortune telling? 0_0

  8. This is off-topic, although I eagerly await Maggie next year. I’m hearing about publishers not publishing paper back versions of books, due to the popularity of electronic reading devices. Does IA have an opinion on this? I’ve heard electronic books give authors a bigger cut, but I don’t know if that is every book or if it is contract-dependant.

  9. Sounds great, I’m in. Will there be Limited Editions and/or signed copies available? Yes, I’m one of those.

  12. Want. Want want want want… 2026? Agonized scream. (Insert Book Goblin having a meltdown here.)

  13. Absolutely cannot wait!! Have been re-reading (and re-listening) all my Ilona Andrews series to keep their beautiful world building alive in anticipation of the next fantasy.

  17. Congratulations, House Andrews. I’m really looking forward to the first in the Maggie series. I don’t usually buy hardbacks, but I’m going to make an exception for this book. Yay deckled edges!

  18. this is so cool. and Tor were wise…. I’m in London, I’m now wondering how much I can wish into existence a business of ferrets that can get into the vent system at the fair to grab a copy (if there)!! I’m not my what’s the word bringing with P, actually maybe not P…manifestation? powers are powerful enough, dispite being part of the mighty Horde…instead I’d probably be like (was it Steve? lost in the woods).

  20. so grateful to not have the whole, “It was just a dream,” nonsense. It’s like the books with a final battle but everyone gets revived and goes home to bake cookies. It’s not that I don’t like cookies, but sometimes it is not appropriate.

  21. Best title ever – especially considering everything House Andrews has gone through to birth the book.

  22. Thank you!!! I am currently reading Steel’s Edge, which I believe is the last full Ilona Andrews title that I have not, myself, devoured. Being so close to having no more new titles is nervous-making and this beautiful shining ray of light will give me strength! 😍 Also, BDH, please share your favorite titles to help get me through until Maggie & Hugh hit print. ❤️

  23. Hooray!! 🙌🏻 I plan to preorder the pretty book as soon as it’s available! 🤓

  26. yay!!!
    a title!
    a release date!
    and possibly 800 pages long!
    you have made me such a happy gal! happy enough that i’m willing to w@it.

  27. I like this title. I think I will make it my motto for life in the next little while.

  32. I’m so ridiculously excited for this book!

    I really love the title, and think it will be super interesting for new Ilona Andrews readers, and make them want to pick it up.

    Do we know yet if the ARC will be on NetGalley? I’m an auto-approved reviewer for TOR, so crossing my fingers it will be 🤞

  33. I am very, very(and a whole bunch more verys) excited. Thank you for sharing this information!

  34. Just wanted to say if you’re plopping people into books I would like to join Her Grace and become a lifelong resident of Gertrude Hunt. You can take me at anytime.

  36. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    *throws triumphant fists into the air*

  38. Nice. “The book overall has an uplifting trajectory” So we gonna get an Ilona Andrews grimbright epic fantasy book. Oh boy cant wait. Love all of their books but Im crazy about grimbright eic fantasy books. I blame mostly Talkien Jim Butcher and R.E. Druin for it.

  40. Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!! 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️

  43. If we all ride to tor, do you think it could be published sooner since you’re finished the edits? what more could they possibly do?

  46. My suggestion is to self-publish a title with white cover and black Arial font and see how much the BDH will pre-order.

  48. Woah an isekai, wasn’t expecting that. Still so excited, can’t wait to read this.😭😭😭

  51. I’m so excited for this new series. One of my favorite things about your books is the motley crew that the MC accumulates over the course of their adventures.

    Thanks for the announcement!

  53. A bit late but:
    We are MIGHTY 😂😂😂😂💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
    Congrats to House Andrews. I cannot wait!!! But I will.

  54. Looking forward to reading Maggie The Undying. Can’t Wait, but in reality, I will have to. I have to work on my patients….

    EEL

  55. I couldn’t understand how Maggie was being released on thr 31st but no pre-orders were up and it was only being talked about at the book fair now. What????

    So I decided to recheck this post and learned that my brain wants this book so badly that it refused to see anything other than 2025. A whole year, arrrrggghhh I need chocolate!

  60. “Ahhhhhhhh!”Gets a big breath of air and starts squeeing again, “Ahhhhhhhh!”
    What wonderful news! Felicitations! I cannot wait and will definitely pre-order. You just made my first part of the year!

  61. Book that totally immersed me was the Hobbit and of course Lord of the Rings.
    I have read all your books and am always checking for the next one.

  64. I’m so excited! I used to love reading epic fantasy and haven’t really found anything in years that calls to me. This sounds awesome and I cannot wait! 🙃🎉