Hello, I’m Caitlin, here to usher you into the twisty, magical world of my dark academia fantasy debut: THE FOX HUNT it, shy student Emma Curran discovers that a circle of privileged students have been entering into a dark pagan ritual – one that holds tantalizing power and comes at a terrible price.
T is for tradition. At England’s most ancient university, rituals run deep…and some of them are bound up with real magic.
H is for hunt. A shocking night at university into something far more sinister, when a group of powerful young men decide that they are hunters, and young women are the prey.
E is for enchantment. Magical libraries, strange creatures, and a hidden world are waiting to be discovered…
F is for fox. This story reverses Beauty and the Beast tropes: our heroine Emma finds strength in her savagery and beauty in the beastly
O is for otherworldly. Emma is drawn into a shadowy realm full of magic, adventure and strange encounters
X is for exclusivity. The wealthy, privileged boys of the University’s elite secret society, The Turnbull Club, live by the code that power belongs to a chosen few.
H is for hierarchy. At this university, status is its own kind of spell.
U is for university. The dreamy academic setting of the University, England’s most storied institution, is a city of libraries, magic, and whispered bargains.
N is for night. Magic awakens after dark, when the eerie world of the Night City is at full strength…
T is for transformation. In shedding her old skin, Emma discovers who she truly is.
Narrator: Maddy Lenny
Dive into the dark underbelly of England’s most ancient university, where behind closed doors a circle of privileged students enter into a dark pagan ritual—one that holds tantalizing power and comes at a terrible price.
"An absorbing novel that weaves an unforgettable tale of magic and subversion."— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
When practical, unassuming second-year student Emma Curran wins an exciting research fellowship, she is ushered into the glittering debauchery of the University elite. There, she falls for the devastating, aristocratic Jasper Balfour, leader of the all-male Turnbull Club: a shadowy secret society that has created centuries of Britain’s leaders, power brokers and history-makers.
One night, the Turnbulls propose a sinister little game: a fox hunt. The women run. The men chase. And Emma finds herself fleeing for her life through the streets, hunted by the boy she loves.
Torn from her ordinary life and trapped in a dangerous, otherworldly realm, Emma awakens transformed. No longer mortal, she's become something beastly. And now she must summon every ounce of cunning and ferocity to save herself.
Fantasy Magical Realism | Fantasy Dark [ Little, Brown and Company, On Sale: February 17, 2026, Paperback / e-Book / audiobook, ISBN: 9780316597388 / eISBN: 9780316597401 ]
Caitlin Breeze lives in London, in a tiny house full of books. After a BA in Classics & Modern Languages from the University of Cambridge – and a Creative MA from Falmouth University in Cornwall, her favorite corner of the world – she currently works as a creative director. The Fox Hunt is her first novel, and was shortlisted for The Cheshire Novel Prize.
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