Be Careful. The dark is listening.

A powerful and moving YA novel that seamlessly blends queer romance and fantasy

Content note: contains references to suicide and self-harm, homophobic and transphobic hate speech and references to past sexual assault.

Publishing 6th February 2025

The boy turned to face him. He lifted one hand and let the light play on his fingers. Not light, a thread.

A single golden thread, drifting like a cobweb, strong as steel. It blossomed from his chest, right above his heart.

Hanan realised with a start that the thread ended in his own chest.

Hanan is supposed to be dead. 

The forest outside Skenashogue sent him home alive – but changed. A strange new magic makes every emotion a physical force he can't control.

Bright and gentle, fox-like Pax is everything Hanan is not. And when he touches Hanan he mutes his secret power, quiets the curse.

To survive their own darkness they'll need to open up to each other. But Hanan isn't sure Pax will like what he finds out ...

Can their love help them find their way back to the light?

"A Fix of Light will break your heart and heal it all over again." – Clara Kumagai, author of Catfish Rolling

“A Fix of Light shows that even in the darkest of despair, there is always a thread of hope to be found." — Helen Corcoran, author of Queen of Coin and Whispers 

"A powerful story ... unquestionably heartfelt and uplifting."  – Mark Kielty, markkieltywriter.com

"Gorgeous and heart-breaking in equal measure. Menton’s prose had a way of pulling you in and weaving the story around you." – A Short Book Lover

Kel Menton (they/them) is a non-binary, neurodivergent writer from Cork in Ireland. Kel works in youth theatre as a facilitator and playwright mentor. They were selected as a Young Writer Delegate for the 2021 Dublin Book Festival. They hold a master's in medieval English literature from University College Cork.