A.F. Steadman’s debut fantasy novel Skandar and the Unicorn Thief has been picked up both by Simon & Schuster for publication, and Sony for a feature deal.

The book is the first in a now-commissioned trilogy, and will be published in 2022. The official synopsis, as released by The Bookseller is:

‘Unicorns don’t belong in fairytales; they belong in nightmares.’ So begins Skandar and the Unicorn Thief. Soar into a world where unicorns are real – and they’re deadly. They can only be tamed by the rider who hatches them. Skandar Smith has only ever wanted to be a unicorn rider, and the time has finally come for him to take his Hatchery Exam, which will determine whether he is destined to hatch a unicorn egg. But when Skandar is stopped from taking the exam, and the mysterious and frightening Weaver steals the most powerful unicorn in the world, becoming a rider becomes a lot more complicated than he could ever have imagined. And what if Skandar was always destined to be the villain rather than the hero?

Get ready for unlikely heroes,elemental magic, fierce sky battles, ancient secrets, nail-biting races and, of course, bloodthirsty unicorns.

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