Once Upon a Book Club

Would you rather be a witch or dragon rider? 🐉🗡️

Our "Cursed Covenant" box is now ready-to-ship! Experience "Blood Bound" by Ellis Hunter paired with FIVE captivating gifts that bring this daring fantasy to life! 🥳 This gorgeous first-print edition features a reversible dust jacket, stenciled page edges, illustrated endpapers, a foil-stamped case, and a matching signed bookplate!

A debut high-stakes fantasy romance trilogy set against a once-in-a-generation duel to the death between rival witches and dragon riders as they battle to control the source of all magic in their kingdoms. You duel or you die.

Shop now and transport yourself to a world of rebellion and fate!

https://www.onceuponabookclub.com/products/limited-edition-cursed-covenant-box-pre-order

The next Lite book selection is a romantasy worth waiting for! 🔮✨

Our readers will receive a gorgeous first edition of "To Drown a Witch" by Lindsey Olsson featuring stunning, flower-patterned stenciled edges and designed endpapers! Prepare for an enemies-to-lovers romantasy in a new Lite box that ensures you can take this reading experience anywhere.

This Once Upon a Book Club Lite selection includes a themed quote print, collectible hexagon sticker, and FIVE envelopes to open as you read. Each envelope contains a flat paper item that works to incorporate the five senses (sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch) to highlight moments that will make you feel like you're part of the story in the most immersive way possible. As a reminder, OUABC Lite is not a subscription and is able to be purchased individually!

The "To Drown a Witch" Lite Box will be $22.99 plus shipping and available to pre-order next Friday, June 12th, at 10am PT (1pm ET) for ACTIVE subscribers. Active subscribers will receive a password emailed to them at 10am PT on June 12th. Any remaining boxes will be available for public sale starting at 11am PT (2pm ET). If you want early subscriber access, please ensure your subscription is active by June 11th, 2026. If you have any questions about the status of your subscription, please email our customer service team at [email protected] and they will be happy to help!

Boxes are expected to ship in early August 2026 after the release of the book.

✨🔮 ABOUT THE BOOK 🔮✨

A criminal and a royal guard are drawn into the hunt for a dangerous witch—and an unexpected romance—in this YA enemies-to-lovers romantasy, the first in a duology. Perfect for fans of "Heartless Hunter". This gorgeous first edition features stunning, flower-patterned stenciled edges and designed endpapers!

In Gadore, the Witch is feared above all else. Reborn into each generation, she is the only person with magic running innately through her veins, able to wield that magic with a single thought.

So when guards across the city begin to drop dead, gruesomely murdered by violent and vicious magic, everyone knows the Witch has returned—and no one will be safe until she’s killed.

Toran is the Prince’s Crown, the most highly skilled fighter in the King’s Guard. Tasked with the responsibility of leading the hunt for the Witch, Toran tries to focus on his assignment to forget the ghosts of his past. And after he learns of Nes, a thief with an uncanny ability to sniff out magic, he forcibly recruits her into joining his hunt.

As the two face deadly magic and otherworldly threats, their mutual dislike soon turns to something more electric, and they find themselves drawn to each other in ways they’d never imagined. But the Witch is always a step ahead of them, and with bodies piling up, secrets threaten to come to light—secrets that could destroy everything from the fragile trust between them to the very city of Gadore itself.

Set those alarms for Friday, June 12th and get ready for another magical Lite experience! ⏰

We're ready to soak up the sun and dive into some new releases! ☀️ Which June new releases are you looking forward to? 😎

"Chateau on Sunset" by Natasha Lester
"Romantic Hero" by Kirsty Greenwood
"The Unicorn Hunters" by Katherine Arden
"It Could Have Been Her" by Lisa Jewell
"When You Loved Me" by Beatriz Williams
"This Immortal Heart" by Jennifer Saint
"Daughters of The Sun and Moon" by Lisa See
"The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones" by Lex Croucher
"Road Trip" by Mary Kay Andrews
"Letters from the Last Apothecary" by Bita Behzadi
"Sublimation" by Isabel J. Kim
"Dearly Departed" by Chip Pons

(Note: These books are ones we are personally excited for, not ones that will be appearing in our boxes!)

We are so excited to reveal our April "Murder in the Outback" Adult box book selection! This month's box featured "No Good Deed" by Katherine Kovacic paired with five gifts that brought this gripping mystery to life! 🔥🦘⁠

Rena and Tom have been planning this trip for years: just the two of them, retired, setting out into remote bush country to enjoy nature's dramatic beauty―and each other's company. When Tom dies unexpectedly just before they are to depart, Rena almost cancels, but there's nothing left at home but painful memories. She hits the road in her kitted-out truck, vowing to follow the itinerary she and Tom had mapped, hoping the trip will at least distract her from her devastating loss.

Not far from her first planned stop, Rena notices a fire burning some distance off the highway. Being a good citizen, she ventures off road, and is horrified to find a vehicle consumed by flames, with what's left of the driver still inside.

When she learns that the victim is a fellow geologist―a less-than-reputable character whom she hadn't seen in 20 years―Rena begins an unofficial and unwelcome investigation fraught with deceit, diamond theft, and murder. Had her old colleague found a new pipeline for the rare and valuable pink diamond, and been killed for it? And if Rena doesn't mind her own business, will she be next?

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