Quicksilver by Callie Hart

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🗝️ Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate. 🗡️

In the land of the unforgiving desert, there isn’t much a girl wouldn’t do for a glass of water.

Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen’s reservoirs for as long as she can remember.

But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone.

When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently re-opens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice and snow. The Fae have always been the stuff of myth, of legend, of nightmares… but it turns out they’re real, and Saeris has landed herself in the middle of a centuries-long conflict that might just get her killed.

The first of her kind to tread the frozen mountains of Yvelia in over a thousand years, Saeris mistakenly binds herself to Kingfisher, a handsome Fae warrior, who has secrets and nefarious agendas of his own. He will use her Alchemist’s magic to protect his people, no matter what it costs him . . . or her.

Death has a name. It is Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate. His past is murky. His attitude stinks. And he’s the only way Saeris is going to make it home.

Be careful of the deals you make, dear child. The devil is in the details . . .

This book will be discussed at our meeting on 18 May 2026

Borrow from the library, buy on Audible or from your local independent bookshop.

Coming soon to the Burton Book Club…

  • V for Victory, Lissa Evans
  • Gone before Goodbye, Harlan Coben & Reese Witherspoon
  • Give me the Child, Mel McGrath
  • The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak
  • Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier
  • The  Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Mark Manson
  • The Elopement, Gill Hornby

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