Spectacular: A Caraval Holiday Novella

Welcome, welcome back to the ENCHANTING WORLD of Caraval!

Return to the legendary magic and the whimsical wonder with this BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED holiday novella from #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author Stephanie Garber.

Snowflakes are falling.
Invitations are arriving.
And holiday magic is swirling in the capital city of the Meridian Empire.

It’s Great Holiday Eve Eve. Scarlett Dragna is planning a spectacular Holiday celebration for the city. Donatella is searching for the perfect gift. Julian is looking ridiculously handsome in green. And Legend . . .

Well, sadly, Legend is not fond of the Great Holiday. Tella is hoping her perfect gift will change his mind. Unfortunately, she hasn’t found this perfect gift just yet. But it is Great Holiday Eve Eve. Surely there’s some holiday magic swirling around.

Set after Stephanie Garber’s #1 New York Times bestselling Caraval series, this delightful novella will take readers on the ultimate holiday adventure full of clockwork boys, poisoned candy, impish snow globes, merriment, and—if Tella gets her way—love.

Gorgeously illustrated by Rosie Fowinkle, Spectacular is the perfect edition for collectors, readers, dreamers, and lovers of holiday magic.

The invitations arrive in boxes. They appear at the stroke of twelve—noon, not midnight. It would be tragic for these invitations to get lost in the dark or stolen by the greedy stars.

The boxes are a perfect snow-white wood and the width of one page.

Oohs fill the air as the boxes are found on doorsteps and windowsills across the city. Snowflakes are carved into the top of each one, and people’s names are burned into the sides.

Before, the air was filled with cold and fog, but now it’s filled with the magic of what could be.

Some people open the boxes right away, quickly untying the red velvet ribbons that seal the wood in place of locks. Others take their time. Boxes like these have never just appeared across Valenda before. Many people wish to savor the moment as they bring their pretty boxes inside cottages and castles and flats overlooking snow-covered streets full of peddlers who now all wish to go home and see if they’ve received boxes as well.

It’s this wishing, this wonder, that seeps into the wood of the box, dropping down to the invitation inside, so that when the lid is lifted, the sheet inside appears blank at first.

Then …

The page crackles like a log in a fire about to break. There’s a spark, a sizzle, and a tiny pop of light that comes from the center of the sheet. The light spreads like a firework, covering the page in shimmering golden script: