A stand-alone novel and Katrina Kwan’s first venture into the realm of dark fantasy.
THE LEGEND OF THE NINE-TAILED FOX
by Katrina Kwan
Saga, October 2025
(via Dystel, Goderich & Bourret)
After a hunt gone wrong, a man-eating fox demon finds herself cast into the deepest circles of hell alongside the very hunter who banished her there. With no choice but to form a tenuous alliance, they must overcome the trials that await them in order to return to the mortal plane—provided they don’t kill each other, first.
As the reluctant pair slay monsters, endure tests of character, and attempt to thwart a sinister plot to destroy the world, they will come to realize that there is a fine line between love and hate. Weaving in inspiration from the Chinese myth of Houyi and the Ten Suns, fox and hunter will learn that the past and present are closely intertwined, and truths about their origins may well determine the fate of the world.
Katrina Kwan is a contemporary romance and fantasy writer. After graduating from Acadia University in 2017 with a BA in political science with honors, Kwan spent the next six years honing her creative skills as a freelance ghostwriter. With several ghostwritten romance novels under her belt, she’s ecstatic to finally be writing books under her own name. She lives in Vancouver with her husband and two cats, and when she isn’t writing, she is desperately trying to keep her collection of houseplants alive.
At the spry young age of twenty-five, Sai has led a quiet life, keeping the family teahouse up and running —even if that means ignoring the past-due notices—and taking care of his ailing mother. But he has a not-so-secret gift that he’s parlayed into a side career: he was born with the ability see the red threads of fate between soulmates, which lends itself nicely to matchmaking. Sai has thus far been content not to follow his own thread, the only one he’s ever seen that’s gray and fraying.