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The Knight and the Moth

by Rachel Gillig

🌶️🌶️mild·spoiler·The Stonewater Kingdom #1

Why Read This?

A beautifully crafted love story that delivers emotional depth and satisfying romantic payoff amidst a thrilling fantasy quest.

Synopsis

Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum's windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams. Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude, heretical, and devilishly handsome, the knight Rodrick has no respect for Sybil's visions. But when Sybil's fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one, she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them. For the world outside the cathedral's cloister is wrought with peril. Only the gods have the answers she is seeking, and as much as she'd rather avoid Rodrick's dark eyes and sharp tongue, only a heretic can defeat a god.

At a Glance

4.25 ★ Goodreads
Spice Level🌶️🌶️mild
Endingspoiler
PairingM/F
Romance Pacingslow burn

Top Tropes

adventure romance

Mood

gothicmysteriousatmosphericeerieromantic

Book Details

Goodreads Rating

4.25 ★

Page Count

385 pages

Published

2025

Primary Genre

Romantasy

Pairing

M/F

POV

Dual POV

Romance Pacing

Slow Burn

Cliffhanger

spoiler

Audiobook

Available

Yes

Format

Standard

Narrator

Samantha Hydeson

Narrator Count

Single

Tropes

RomanceMagicActionAngstWorld
Theme Constellation

Mood & Vibe

Mood

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Characters

FMC: outcast / misfit sign in to unlock

Spice Details 🌶️

romantic / sweet sign in to unlock

self-harmreligious traumaabusedeathchild deathdrowningbody horrorgriefgaslighting

World & Setting

high fantasy sign in to unlock

Reading Context

tension finally satisfied sign in to unlock

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