The Key
harvester duet
There's a dagger in your back
The stand-alone first book in the key harvester duet
Rerelease coming 2025. Date : TBD
Six of Crows meets City of Gods and Monsters with the dark whimsy of The Cruel Prince.
also available in ebook and papberback
Rerelease coming 2025. Unclear at the moment if separate editions will be created, so first editions are still currently available.
Hardcover edition features the bonus chapter, There's a Breath at Your Neck.
featured reviews :
For those who are fans of gripping urban fantasy with some delicious smut, then this book will not disappoint. There’s a Dagger in Your Back jumps into the world of Majik and assassins, with a plot filled with teeth biting and book throwing moments, it is one for fans of Crescent City. Stacey has taken her own twist to fantasy, with beautiful world building within the City of Idun, of different species such as Mer, the Seelie and Favoured, and the Imans. Her story is complex and keeps you guessing! I can’t wait to see where book two will lead!
— Shyanne Taylor, author of The Triumph Series
I do agree that fans of Crescent City and other urban fantasy will enjoy this! I do very much respect and admire the scale and the details of her world building. A lot of love and attention was put into it and it’s visible from page one.
— Lauren Dedroog, author of A Curse of Crows
Inventive and exhilarating. Stacey Willis has created a dangerous, decadent world full of intrigue and romance that will have you reading late into the night.
— Katherine Webber, bestselling co-author of Twin Crowns
hardcover special edition
Features exclusive art and black & decorated interior front and back pages. Also features the bonus short story, There's a Breath at Your Neck.
Genre
Dark Epic and Urban Fantasy and Mystery.
Age range
18+
Premise : from book i
An alternate and parallel universe, present day Earth, the Madir Dynasty ( fifth governor of the city of Idun ).
Magic and its creatures have existed alongside imannity ( Seelie given name for the human race ) since the dawn of time. Through war and evolution, they have learned to co-exist. Until now.
Contracted assassin and iman ( Seelie given name for human ) Lorrin Raffe ( rah-feh ) has had enough of answering to the Ivory Blade —she craves her own empire and throne over all of the underground rings. To prove her break away from her as good as dead Drakon boss, she steals the coveted prize of the heirless Jon De Polis' life. In doing so, she sets into motion a chain of events which will have the city reeling.
Rye, an Elf scholar from the Academy, tells of a prophecy tying her to the ever impatient Unseelie King and his desire to take back the land of his forefathers against the old agreement —the entire city and ocean front. Lorrin must weed out traitors and spies amidst her new ranks, all while establishing herself in higher society. It would not be so difficult if a stubborn iman Guard of Madir, Zemir Kal, wasn't on her trail for De Polis' murder. Zemir is almost everything that Lorrin isn't: she's cold, reserved, and a devout follower of the fayth. But the two share a darkness; a danger, that neither can resist in the other.
More dangerous still, are Lorrin's developing feelings for the officer laced into her physical attraction. Zemir is hesitant to have something lasting —and before long, the assassin finds herself having to choose between her crown and her heart.
But the Unseelie King poses a threat to any chance of either as he summons the newest underworld queen-pin...to seek out Lorrin's heart as well. Though not in any way of affection. And he will stop at nothing to crush it.
