The Eight Invincibles

Fantasy
Adventure

He is the Knight of Sorrow, one of the Eight Invincibles. She has just become his master. What awaits them is a journey between betrayal, love, and the neverending search for freedom.

Ella has spent her whole life being told what she’s not: not rich, not gifted, not anyone’s first choice. Then, on a forgotten battlefield, she picks up a small steel key—and everything about her life stops being true.

The key belongs to Blasco, the immortal Knight of Sorrow, one of the legendary Eight Invincibles: siblings enslaved three centuries ago by magical collars that force them to obey whoever holds their key. Ella has just become his master.

Driven from her village, she and Blasco set out to free his family, one broken collar at a time—while the Dragon King, the five-hundred-year-old ruler who forged those collars in the first place, has plans of his own for a girl who commands that kind of power.

  • An epic ensemble quest — each stage of the journey reunites another of the legendary Eight Invincibles, assembling a memorable cast of complex siblings and a deeply moving found family.
  • A slow-burn romance built on consent — Ella and Blasco’s relationship grows through freely chosen promises, mutual trust and sacrifice, giving the novel an emotional depth rarely found in epic fantasy.
Publisher: Rizzoli
Target: 12+
Year: 2026
Author
Davide Morosinotto

An author whose books have been translated into 25 languages, in Italy Davide Morosinotto won the Super Andersen Prize in 2017 with Il Rinomato Catalogo Walker&Dawn (The Pocket Watch Gang), Mondadori, and the Strega Children’s Prize 2021 with La Più Grande (The Greatest), Rizzoli, with which he also entered the IBBY Honour List 2021. A finalist at the prestigious Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and winner of the Penzberger Urmel in Germany, he has also won the Prix des Bouquineurs en Seine and the Grand Prix des Lecteurs du Journal de Mickey in France, the Vlag en Wimpel and the Zilveren Griffel in Holland, the KJV in Flanders, the Protagonista Jove prize in Catalonia and he was nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2022 in the United Kingdom.

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