This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me: Outlander meets Game of Thrones in this blockbuster epic fantasy – set in a city filled with rogues, assassins and dangerous politics

· Maggie the Undying Book 1 · Pan Macmillan
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She knows exactly how their story ends.
Now she’s fighting to rewrite it.


This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me is the beginning of the most epic adventure yet from bestselling author Ilona Andrews. For fans of Samantha Shannon, Sarah J. Maas, Danielle L. Jensen and isekai portal fantasy.

When Maggie wakes up cold, filthy and naked in a gutter, she recognizes Kair Toren. It’s a city she knows intimately from the pages of a famously unfinished fantasy series. And what are her only tools for navigating this gritty world of rival warlords, magic and mayhem? Her encyclopaedic knowledge of the books and their characters' fates.

She quickly discovers she can’t be killed (though many will try), but the same can’t be said for those she’s learning to love – a motley band including a former lady’s maid, an assassin and a dangerously appealing soldier . . .

Soon, instead of trying to return home, she finds herself enmeshed in the schemes – and attentions – of duelling princes, dukes and villains. All this while trying to save them and their kingdom from the ending she’s seen on the page: a cataclysmic war.

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‘I was captivated from the very first line’
– Danielle L. Jensen, author of A Fate Inked in Blood

‘Fantasy, romance, danger – this book has it all. Addictive. I need the sequel stat’
– Felicia Day, author of Third Eye

‘A perfect blend of humour and high stakes’
– Katee Robert, author of Neon Gods

‘Absolutely brilliant! This is the kind of book that will make you forget the world exists’
– Sarah Beth Durst, author of The Spellshop

She knows exactly how their story ends. Now she’s fighting to rewrite it. This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me is the beginning of the most epic adventure yet from bestselling author Ilona Andrews. For fans of Samantha Shannon, Sarah J. Maas, Danielle L. Jensen and isekai portal fantasy. When Maggie w...

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30 reviews
123PurpleRabbit
April 24, 2026
Fantastic, gripping story beautifully (and in some places, frighteningly, told). Ilona Andrews has outdone themselves with this one and I can't wait for the next one.
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Freyja Fischer
April 2, 2026
If you like fantasy and/or books with a competent female lead and/or detailed and credible world building, do yourself a favour and buy this book. It's beyond words how good this book is. The foreboding, the characters, the slow, grinding way Maggie has to work to stay afloat... It's chef's kiss from start to finish.
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Bav N
April 4, 2026
phenomenal! HA are at it again with the shift into portal fantasy and their trademark omg moments! 🙀😍😍😍😍
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About the author

'Ilona Andrews' is the pseudonym for a husband-and-wife writing team. Ilona is a native-born Russian and Gordon is a former communications sergeant in the US Army. Contrary to popular belief, Gordon was never an intelligence officer with a license to kill, and Ilona was never the mysterious Russian spy who seduced him. They met in college, in English Composition 101, where Ilona got a better grade. (Gordon is still sore about that.) They reside in Texas with their two children and many dogs and cats.

They have co-authored several bestselling series, including the No. 1 New York Times bestselling Kate Daniels urban fantasy, The Edge rustic fantasy novels, the Hidden Legacy paranormal romances, Maggie the Undying and the weekly serial Innkeeper Chronicles.

'Ilona Andrews' is the pseudonym for a husband-and-wife writing team. Ilona is a native-born Russian and Gordon is a former communications sergeant in the US Army. Contrary to popular belief, Gordon was never an intelligence officer with a license to kill, and Ilona was never the mysterious Russi...

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