Starling Nights
- Author Merit Niemeitz, Translated by Caroline Waight
- Narrator Sofia Engstrand, Joe Eyre
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 15 January 2026
- Run Time 15 hours and 9 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Dark romance, Fantasy romance, Magical realism, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Romance: fantasy and paranormal, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
The Secret History meets Twilight in this gripping Dark Academia with a romantasy twist!
Some secrets are written in the stars
Others hide in the shadows
There were many myths told about Cambridge. Stories woven from rumour and skewed half-truths, the thin fabric passed from hand to hand in the shadows.
The university kept the true, unfiltered secrets of this place. Only a select few were capable of understanding what it had to tell. People like us. We understood because we were part of it. Because we were the biggest secret of all.
Cambridge student Mabel Golding learned long ago to keep her head down and avoid getting entangled in other people’s drama, but when her best friend, Zoe, is drawn into the circle of a mysterious student society with centuries of history, Mabel feels inordinately uneasy. Even more so when she soon finds herself dangerously close to the heart of The League of Starlings, and to its inscrutable leader, Blake…
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