A searing and romantic fantasy adventure about an oligarchic state on the verge of a magical industrial revolution! 

Tombolo Books is thrilled to welcome local author and friend of the bookstore Maria Ingrande Mora back to launch their latest YA fantasy novel, A Wild Radiance! An epic and romantic fantasy that reimagines the War of the Currents, A Wild Radiance explodes with queer chaotic tension, magical industrialization, and class revolution themes. 

Ingrande Mora will be in conversation with fellow Florida YA author Amanda DeWitt! Readers who preorder their books from Tombolo will also recieve exclusive book swag with their purchase! 

More about A Wild Radiance 

Josephine Haven is about to find out exactly where she fits into the march of Progress. Her outbursts are infamous at the House of Industry, the school for children who can wield radiance, an electricity-like magic. She’s tried to follow the rules, but her fiery nature is at odds with the core tenet of the House: Never form attachments. If she is meant to feel nothing, why are her emotions so volatile?

No one is surprised when, upon graduation, Josephine is banished from the city to a remote Mission. In Frostbrook, she must work under standoffish Julian, the former golden boy of the House of Industry who seems determined to watch her fail. And then there’s Ezra, the flirtatious stranger who’s a little too curious about how the Mission operates.

But there are bigger problems than Julian and Ezra’s secrets. A deadly disease is spreading across the countryside, and in Frostbrook, not everyone is eager to embrace Progress. As Josephine questions the system that raised her—and gives in to desire she’s been taught to suppress—she must decide what she’s willing to sacrifice to expose not just corruption within the House, but the devastating truth about the radiance in her core.

Maria Ingrande Mora (they/she) is the acclaimed author of Fragile Remedy, a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, the Ranger Academy series, and The Immeasurable Depth of You, an Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award finalist, which earned three starred reviews, with Kirkus Reviews calling it “raw and compassionate.” A queer, AuDHD single parent, Mora lives in Florida with their two teenagers and three cats. Instagram: @MariaMoraWrites.

Amanda DeWitt is a librarian and author of young adult novels, including Aces Wild: a heist, Wren Martin Ruins It All, and, most recently, the Underwood Tapes. While she calls Dunedin, Florida her hometown, she now lives in Colorado with her two dogs and one tiny cat.