Story of the Hundred Promises

A queer, deconstructed version of the "Beauty and the Beast" fairy tale Trans sailor Darragh Thorn has made a comfortable life for himself among people wholove and accept him. Ten years after his exile from home, though, his sister asks him toreconcile with their ailing father. Determined to resolve his feelings rather than justsurvive them, Darragh sets off on a quest to find the one person who can heal ahalf-dead man: the mysterious enchanter who once gave him the magic he needed tobecome his true self. But so far as anyone knows, no one but Darragh has seen theenchanter for a century, and the fairy tales that survive about em give more cause forfear than hope. In lush and evocative prose, and populated with magical trees and awise fox, The Story of the Hundred Promises is a big-hearted fantasy suffused withqueer optimism.