The Tearsmith

A GRIPPING TALE OF IMPOSSIBLE LOVE, DISCOVER THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED NO.1 ITALIAN BESTSELLER NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ENGLISH Legend speaks of the Maker of Tears: a man with eyes like glass, who crafts all the fears that dwell in people's hearts . . . What will it take for star-crossed orphans Nica and Rigel to face him and his creations? ---- Growing up within the walls of Grave's Orphanage, Nica's imagination burned with fantastical stories. Including that of The Tearsmith, a mysterious craftsman, guilty of having forged all the fears and anxieties in the world. When at seventeen, she's adopted by Mr and Mrs Mulligan, Nica thinks she's leaving her world of dark fairy tales behind her. But the Mulligans also adopt Rigel, an orphan who is as mesmerising and handsome as he is troubled. They share a past filled with grief and isolation, and the ever-gentle Nica starts to fall for her forbidden love. However it isn’t long until the fears and the darkness of her childhood threaten to unravel her future. Can Nica find the courage to embrace the future? Forget her past? And fall for her secret love? No. 1 Italian bestseller, Il Librario

A GRIPPING TALE OF IMPOSSIBLE LOVE, DISCOVER THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED NO.1 ITALIAN BESTSELLER NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ENGLISH Legend speaks of the Maker of Tears: a man with eyes like glass, who crafts all the fears that dwell in people's hearts . . . What will it take for star-crossed orphans Nica and Rigel to face him and his creations? ---- Growing up within the walls of Grave's Orphanage, Nica's imagination burned with fantastical stories. Including that of The Tearsmith, a mysterious craftsman, guilty of having forged all the fears and anxieties in the world. When at seventeen, she's adopted by Mr and Mrs Mulligan, Nica thinks she's leaving her world of dark fairy tales behind her. But the Mulligans also adopt Rigel, an orphan who is as mesmerising and handsome as he is troubled. They share a past filled with grief and isolation, and the ever-gentle Nica starts to fall for her forbidden love. However it isn’t long until the fears and the darkness of her childhood threaten to unravel her future. Can Nica find the courage to embrace the future? Forget her past? And fall for her secret love? No. 1 Italian bestseller, Il Librario

NOW A HIT NETFLIX MOVIE - The bestselling international sensation and viral TikTok phenomenon--a dark, sexy, haunting novel of two aching young adults who are taken in by the same family and forced to reckon with a destructive love that could be the undoing of them both "Ready for the next Twilight ?"-- People Growing up in a ghastly orphanage run by an abusive matron, Nica coped in the only way she could--by retreating to her imagination, where she lived out fantastical stories , especially about the Tearsmith, the man who makes tears, a terrifying figure who forges all the fears that dwell in people's hearts. When she's finally taken in by an adoptive family at seventeen, Nica thinks she's leaving the group home, its torments, and her prison of otherworldly tales behind her. That is, until Rigel -- a young man raised from birth in the same dreadful orphanage -- joins her new family. Rigel is as mesmerizingly handsome as he is troubled, and he and Nica have a long history of distrust and hostility. But as they come to live together again under one roof, the deep shared trauma of surviving such vicious circumstances sparks something magical, and Nica begins to fall for Rigel's forbidden love. Before any relationship can become reality, though, they'll have to face the darkness of their past . . . and the dangerous stakes of pursuing a future together.

NOW A HIT NETFLIX MOVIE - The bestselling international sensation and viral TikTok phenomenon--a dark, sexy, haunting novel of two aching young adults who are taken in by the same family and forced to reckon with a destructive love that could be the undoing of them both "Ready for the next Twilight ?"-- People Growing up in a ghastly orphanage run by an abusive matron, Nica coped in the only way she could--by retreating to her imagination, where she lived out fantastical stories , especially about the Tearsmith, the man who makes tears, a terrifying figure who forges all the fears that dwell in people's hearts. When she's finally taken in by an adoptive family at seventeen, Nica thinks she's leaving the group home, its torments, and her prison of otherworldly tales behind her. That is, until Rigel -- a young man raised from birth in the same dreadful orphanage -- joins her new family. Rigel is as mesmerizingly handsome as he is troubled, and he and Nica have a long history of distrust and hostility. But as they come to live together again under one roof, the deep shared trauma of surviving such vicious circumstances sparks something magical, and Nica begins to fall for Rigel's forbidden love. Before any relationship can become reality, though, they'll have to face the darkness of their past . . . and the dangerous stakes of pursuing a future together.