As Many Souls as Stars
The breakout gothic historical sapphic fantasy of 2025
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:27th Aug '26
Should be back in stock very soon

'How hollow is the heart of a mortal... How starving the soul'
A sweeping romantic epic, full of the joys of fantasy and yet brilliantly genre-defying reimagining of the Faustus legend. Set across three time periods, it follows Harding, a girl born under inauspicious stars, who is stalked by a demon determined to take her soul as her own. Perfect for fans of The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue, Life After Life and The Bear and the Nightingale.
'A gorgeous Gothic romance' Heat
'Hypnotic' S. T. Gibson
1592. Cybil Harding is a girl born under cursed stars, destined to bring disaster to those around her. Miriam Richter is a creature born of shadow. Forged by the dark arts, she is doomed to exist for eternity and destined to be alone.
Everything changes when Miriam encounters Cybil, whose soul shines with a light so bright, she must consume it. Entranced, Miriam offers a bargain: she will grant Cybil reincarnation and the chance to change her stars in exchange for her soul.
Thus begins a dance across centuries as Miriam hunts Cybil in every lifetime to claim her prize. But as the two women circle each other in their battle for dominance, the bond forged between them grows stronger.
Gothic, magical and filled with yearning, As Many Souls as Stars is a dark and evocative tale asking how much of our fate do we control and what you would sacrifice for love.
Siegel delivers a story that is at once sumptuous and seductive, searing and sinister, an homage to possession, rage, and mortal fears that will capture readers as assuredly as a deal with the devil -- Laura R. Samotin, author of The Sins on Our Bones
Haunting, beautiful and rippling with tension, AMSAS is crafted with razor sharp precision that over spills into blood. I could not look away -- Rosie Talbot, author of Sixteen Souls
With lyrical writing and a poet's touch, Siegel delivers an epic story of deep loneliness, tormented love, and one woman's quest to set herself free – no matter how many lives she must be reborn into -- Sunyi Dean, author of The Book Eaters
Siegel’s prose is enrapturing as she spins a tale that crosses centuries. A dark and dreamy portrait of two star-crossed souls finding one another again and again through time. Delicious and heartbreaking in equal measure – I couldn’t put it down -- Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson, Sunday Times Bestselling author of The Principle of Moments
Lyrical, haunting, captivating . . . reminiscent of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Filled with soul stealing lines, this is a book that will stay with you -- Rachel Greenlaw, author of The Ordeals
Dark longing waltzes hand-in-hand with historical elegance in this hypnotic gothic tale -- S. T. Gibson, author of A Dowry of Blood
With lyrical writing and a poet's touch, Siegel delivers an epic story of deep loneliness, tormented love, and one woman's quest to set herself free – no matter how many lives she must be born into -- Sunyi Dean, bestselling author of The Book Eaters
This is a gorgeously written tale of a Faustian bargain and a dangerous game of desire and destruction across the centuries. Vividly conjuring up different time periods and the shadows that haunt those women who are called monstrous, the book kept me as spellbound as any of the circles of salt within its pages -- Sarah Brooks, author of The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands
ISBN: 9781526684608
Dimensions: 196mm x 126mm x 26mm
Weight: 225g
320 pages