Katsa has the horrifying Grace of killing, working as an assassin and executioner for the king since she was young, but when she meets a prince Graced with combat skills, Katsa finds freedom and redemption.Ī thousand years ago, the mighty Queen Hanalea vanquished the Demon King, a powerful and evil wizard who caused the magical catastrophe known as the Breaking. In the Seven Kingdoms, those born with heterochromia (different colored eyes) are Graced with an extreme and often-feared skill. See also: The Crown of Embers, The Bitter Kingdom But after the wedding, a neighboring kingdom prepares to invade and dark forces threaten, and when Elisa is kidnapped by a handsome rogue, she must find her hidden self-worth in order to save the kingdom. But now Hazel and Ben are older, the boy no longer sleeps, and as each sibling grows closer to the sleeping prince, the fae draw closer and closer.Įven though she bears the mysterious and rare Godstone, 16-year-old Princess Elisa is a disappointment to her family and country: plain, overweight, and unmotivated, she is content to wed a handsome neighboring king to cement an alliance. In the town of Fairfold, where humans and fae exist side by side, siblings Hazel and Ben used to pretend they were knights they protected the mysterious boy who sleeps in the glass coffin in the woods, fought cruel fae, and made faerie deals. See also: The Wicked King, The Queen of Nothing Ten years later, raised by the very man who killed her parents, Jude wants to become a warrior so, disgusted by her own weakness, she and her brother become entangled in a dangerous political plot webbed with deadly romance and court intrigue. When Jude and her twin sister, Taryn, were seven, their parents were murdered by their half-sister’s fae father, leaving all three girls to be taken to the High Court of Faerie. See also: Siege and Storm, Ruin and Rising When the mysterious and enigmatic Darkling, the powerful leader of Ravka, recruits her, Alina Starkov is plunged into a quest where light and dark, the fate of those she loves, and the whole of Ravka hang in the balance. Brave and intrepid Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid in order to murder the man who killed her friend, but as the night draws on, she realizes that all is not what it seems with the boy king…and she may just be falling in love with him.Īlina Starkov is a Grisha: someone who practices the Small Science, manipulating matter at its most fundamental levels. Each night Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride - only to have her executed each sunrise.

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