Innamorata
A series of four illustrations created for Innamorata (House of Teeth Duology, Book #1), written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid and published March 2026. These illustrations were included as endpapers in the Del Rey US hardcover edition, as well as the front cover image for UK editions published by Penguin Books.
Each illustration references a painting from history. From left to right: The Meeting on the Turret Stairs by Frederic William Burton, The Soul of the Rose by John William Waterhouse, and Le Jour des Morts by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
Penguin Books UK cover and Waterstones special edition
US Del Rey hardcover first edition endpapers
Though she has not spoken a word in seven years, Agnes is the true carrier of the House’s legacy. And she has her orders. She must recapture the secrets of death magic and avenge her family’s fallen honor. She must arrange the betrothal of her beloved cousin Marozia to Liuprand, heir to the conqueror’s throne, for access to the forbidden library in his grotesquely grand castle.
Revenge burns in Agnes’s heart but so do stranger passions—and it is Liuprand, the golden prince, who speaks to her soul. This passion is as treasonous as it is powerful, poisoning the kingdom’s roots and threatening to tear the already shattered realm in two.
For Agnes’s final order is the gravest: She must not fall in love.