Tahereh Mafi has revealed the cover of And the Stars Align, the fifth and final novel in her Woven Kingdom romantasy series, due in late April 2027. It ends a series that began in 2022 and has kept readers dangling over a fresh cliff every February since.
The Woven Kingdom books draw on Persian mythology and the Shahnameh. They follow Alizeh, the lost heir to the Jinn throne, who has been hiding in plain sight as a servant. That has never been the safest career for a fantasy heroine. Book one, This Woven Kingdom, was followed by These Infinite Threads (2023), All This Twisted Glory (2024) and Every Spiral of Fate, which arrived in September 2025. Along the way Alizeh has picked up a crown prince, Kamran, and a mercurial rival king, Cyrus. Readers have been arguing about which of them deserves her with the fervour of a Tolkien Society AGM debating Tom Bombadil.
The finale was originally scheduled for autumn 2026. Mafi pushed it back to spring 2027 because she wanted time to give the series a proper send-off, a decision that deserves a polite round of applause. She is also writing Watch Me, the spin-off from her bestselling Shatter Me dystopian series, so 2027 will be busy at Chez Mafi.
Fantasy is full of final volumes that turned up a decade late, or not at all. A finale that’s merely six months late, with a cover already on the table, is something of a relief. Readers with the first four on the shelf can safely start the reread at Christmas.
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