Alix E. Harrow's The Everlasting is officially heading to Netflix, and we couldn't be more excited. The novel, released through Tor in October 2025, is a time-loop fantasy following Sir Una Everlasting, an orphaned girl who became a legendary knight and essentially built an entire nation on the back of her sacrifice.
Centuries later, a not-very-heroic historian named Owen Mallory becomes obsessed with her story and ends up being pulled back through time itself. The two of them get tangled together across centuries, looping through the same tragic ending over and over until they decide to try and rewrite it. Under all the romantasy dressing, it is a very ambitious book and Harrow absolutely sticks the landing.
The book won the 2026 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and is currently a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, joining Harrow's already impressive shelf that includes The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Once and Future Witches and Starling House. Netflix won a competitive bidding war against other streamers to land the rights.
Who's producing The Everlasting for Netflix?
The team attached is what's really got people excited though. Daphne Ferraro is on board to write and executive produce. She was the head writer on season 1 of Amazon's Maxton Hall, the German YA adaptation that became the biggest international original launch in the platform's history, hitting number one in over 120 countries. Season 1 had this electric, crackling quality and the writing was tight, the emotional beats landed and fans were obsessed.
Ferraro won't be returning for the final season of the show and now Netflix has hired her. I think that discourse is actually why this Everlasting announcement feels so charged. Because it's Ferraro, clearly at her best, brought in specifically to shepherd something with real creative control from the start.
Ferraro's background also makes her an unusually good fit for this specific story. She wrote on season 2 of Dark, Netflix's German sci-fi series famous for its labyrinthine chronology. Not exactly light prep work for a time-loop narrative. The fact that someone with her particular experience in nonlinear time-tangled storytelling is the one cracking The Everlasting gives us so much hope.
Harrow herself is executive producing alongside Ferraro. She posted about the deal on Instagram. "I still can't promise it'll turn into anything (there are like 500 different ways a TV show can die before it gets to the screen)," she wrote, before adding: "I'm so lucky that @daphneferrarowriter read this book. what an unbelievable privilege, to have people turn your art into their art."
The rest of the producing team includes Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Katy Rozelle and Lea Cuello, with Universal Global Television behind the whole thing.
Netflix hasn't handed down a series order yet, and as of now there's no cast attached and no release window. But the source material is exceptional, and the person they've chosen to write it has already proven she can make a fantasy YA adaptation feel genuinely alive. We'll be watching this one closely.
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