This is a monthly subscription product. Signing up with this box will have your subscription starting with our January Bookish box. Your account would then be set to automatically renew on January 20th for our February Bookish Box. This subscription automatically renews for the upcoming month's box on the 20th of the month. This subscription plan includes the exclusive luxe edition of the month. In collaboration with Marie Lu, The Bookish Box is thrilled to announce our January Bookish Box Exclusive Luxe Edition, Red City! Book Synopsis: WHEN YOU WIN THE GAME OF POWER, WHO DO YOU LOSE? Alchemy is the hidden art of transformation. An exclusive power wielded by crime syndicates that market it to the world’s elites in the form of sand, a drug that enhances those who take it into a more perfect version of themselves: more beautiful, more charismatic, simply more. Among the gleaming skyscrapers and rolling foothills of Angel City, alchemy is controlled by two rival syndicates. For years, Grand Central and Lumines have been balanced on a razor’s edge between polite negotiation and outright violence. But when two childhood friends step into that delicate equation, the city—and the paths of their lives—will be irrevocably changed. The daughter of a poor single mother, Sam would do anything to claw her way into the ranks of Grand Central in search of a better life. Plucked away from his family as a boy to become a Lumines apprentice, Ari is one of the syndicates’ brightest rising stars. Once, they might have loved each other. But as the two alchemists face off across opposite sides of an ever-escalating conflict, ambition will become power, loyalty will become lies, and no transformation may be perfect enough for them both to survive the coming war. The Godfather meets The Magicians in the sweeping adult debut from #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu—a dark and deadly contemporary fantasy of magical warfare, star-crossed ambition, and the pursuit of perfection at any cost, set in a glittering alternate Los Angeles Why we love Red City: 🌙Mafia Meets Magic 🌙Childhood Friends-to-Enemies-to-???? 🌙Star-Crossed Romance 🌙Rival Alchemist Gangs 🌙Alchemy Magic System Exclusive Luxe Edition details: 🌆Foiled Author Signature @marieluthewriter🌆Author Letter, Exclusive to The Bookish Box🌆Bonus Chapter, Exclusive to The Bookish Box 🌆Front Dust Jacket Artwork with Cold-Foiled Details and Spot-Glossed Details by @arvildon🌆Reverse Dust Jacket Artwork with Foiled and Spot-Glossed Details by @im_arc_ 🌆Hard Case Artwork with Cold-Foiled and Spot-Glossed Details by Ariel Waters @thebookishbox_artists🌆Edges with Hidden Fore-Edge Artwork by @arvildon🌆Character Art Endpapers by @im_arc_ These boxes are estimated to ship in March 2026. 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