THE GOLEM & THE JINNI Trilogy

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THE GATES OF MIDNIGHT

Coming September 15, 2026!

The Gates of Midnight is the long-awaited final volume in Helene Wecker's beloved and bestselling The Golem and the Jinni trilogy, a richly imagined and deeply transporting novel that brings this remarkable saga to an unforgettable close.

New York, 1930. Chava the golem, a woman made of clay, now lives a secluded life in Brooklyn, the diligent caretaker of an empty house, keeping watch over a world from which she remains half-withdrawn. Ahmad the jinni, a creature of fire, has traded metalsmithing for an architect's career in Chicago, and has exchanged the freedom of fire for the constraints of a human life that still does not quite fit. They have spent years apart, sustained only by memory, longing, and their nightly telephone calls. But the fragile balance they have managed to maintain begins to collapse with the threatened return of Yehudah Schaalman, the wizard whose shadow has shaped both their lives. As old dangers awaken and other lives become entangled with their own, Chava and Ahmad are drawn once more toward one another--and toward a reckoning with love, freedom, and the costs of survival.

At once epic and intimate, The Gates of Midnight is a novel about exile and belonging, desire and duty, and the hope that even lives marked by loneliness and enchantment might still find their way toward one another. It is a resonant and satisfying finale, and a beautiful culmination of a series that has captivated readers for years.

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THE HIDDEN PALACE

In this enthralling historical epic, set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading to World War I— the long-awaited follow-up to the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Golemand the Jinni—Helene Wecker revisits her beloved characters Chava and Ahmad as they confront unexpected new challenges in a rapidly changing human world.

Chava is a golem, a woman made of clay, able to hear the thoughts and longings of the people around her and compelled by her nature to help them. Ahmad is a jinni, a perpetually restless and free-spirited creature of fire, imprisoned in the shape of a man. Fearing they’ll be exposed as monsters, these magical beings hide their true selves and pretend to be human—just two more immigrants in the bustling world of 1900s Manhattan. Having encountered each other under calamitous circumstances, Chava and Ahmad’s lives are now entwined—but they’re not yet certain of what they mean to each other. 

Each has unwittingly affected the humans around them. Park Avenue heiress Sophia Winston, whose brief encounter with Ahmad left her with a strange illness that makes her shiver with cold, travels to the Middle East to seek a cure. There she meets a tempestuous female jinni who’s been banished from her tribe. Back in New York, in a tenement on the Lower East Side, a little girl named Kreindel helps her rabbi father build a golem they name Yossele—not knowing that she’s about to be sent to an orphanage uptown, where the hulking Yossele will become her only friend and protector.

Spanning the tumultuous years from the turn of the twentieth century to the beginning of World War I, The Hidden Palace follows these lives and others as they collide and interleave. Can Chava and Ahmad find their places in the human world while remaining true to each other? Or will their opposing natures and desires eventually tear them apart—especially once they encounter, thrillingly, other beings like themselves?

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THE GOLEM AND THE JINNI

2014 Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature winner ✦ 2014 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award winner ✦ 2014 Harold U. Ribalow Prize winner ✦ 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novel nominee ✦ 2014 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel nominee ✦ 2013 James Tiptree, Jr. Award finalist

In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York.

Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life to serve as a wife for a Polish emigre who then dies at sea on the voyage to America. Chava is left unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York Harbor in 1899.

Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert, trapped in an old copper flask, and released in New York City, though still not entirely free.

Ahmad and Chava become unlikely friends and soul mates with a mystical connection. Marvelous and compulsively readable, Helene Wecker's debut novel The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, into a wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale.