Title: "Windwitch"
Series: The Witchlands, #2
Author: Susan Dennard
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Published: January 10, 2017
Publisher: TorTeen
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Adventure
Pages: 400
Format: ARC
Source: I received this arc from the publisher for being a part of the Witchlanders
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Sometimes our enemies are also our only allies…
After
an explosion destroys his ship, the world believes Prince Merik,
Windwitch, is dead. Scarred yet alive, Merik is determined to prove his
sister’s treachery. Upon reaching the royal capital, crowded with
refugees, he haunts the streets, fighting for the weak—which leads to
whispers of a disfigured demigod, the Fury, who brings justice to the
oppressed.
When the Bloodwitch Aeduan discovers a bounty on
Iseult, he makes sure to be the first to find her—yet in a surprise
twist, Iseult offers him a deal. She will return money stolen from him,
if he locates Safi. Now they must work together to cross the Witchlands,
while constantly wondering, who will betray whom first?
After a
surprise attack and shipwreck, Safi and the Empress of Marstok barely
escape with their lives. Alone in a land of pirates, every moment
balances on a knife’s edge—especially when the pirates’ next move could
unleash war upon the Witchlands.
Title: "Queen of Shadows"
Series: Throne of Glass, #4
Author: Sarah J. Maas
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Published: September 1, 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance
Pages: 648
Format: Hardcover
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The queen has returned.
Everyone
Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she’s at last
returned to the empire—for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious
kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past…
She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight.
She
will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die for her. She will
fight for her friend, a young man trapped in an unspeakable prison. And
she will fight for her people, enslaved to a brutal king and awaiting
their lost queen’s triumphant return.
The fourth volume in the New York Times
bestselling series continues Celaena’s epic journey and builds to a
passionate, agonizing crescendo that might just shatter her world.
Title: "Illuminae"
Series: The Illuminae Files, #1
Author: Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
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Published: October 20, 2015
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Genres: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Adventure
Pages: 599
Format: Hardcover
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This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do.
This afternoon, her planet was invaded.
The
year is 2575, and two rival megacorporations are at war over a planet
that’s little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the
universe. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it. With
enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra—who are barely even
talking to each other—are forced to fight their way onto an evacuating
fleet, with an enemy warship in hot pursuit.
But their problems
are just getting started. A deadly plague has broken out and is
mutating, with terrifying results; the fleet's AI, which should be
protecting them, may actually be their enemy; and nobody in charge will
say what’s really going on. As Kady hacks into a tangled web of data to
find the truth, it's clear only one person can help her bring it all to
light: the ex-boyfriend she swore she'd never speak to again.
Told
through a fascinating dossier of hacked documents—including emails,
schematics, military files, IMs, medical reports, interviews, and more—Illuminae
is the first book in a heart-stopping, high-octane trilogy about lives
interrupted, the price of truth, and the courage of everyday heroes.
Title: "Fire Falling"
Series: Air Awakens #2
Author: Elise Kova
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Published: November 19, 2015
Publisher: Silver Wing Press
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance
Pages: 378
Format: Paperback
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Soldier… Sorcerer… Savior… Who is Vhalla Yarl?
Vhalla
Yarl marches to war as property of the Solaris Empire. The Emperor
counts on her to bring victory, the Senate counts on her death, and the
only thing Vhalla can count on is the fight of her life. As she grapples
with the ghosts of her past, new challenges in the present threaten to
shatter the remnants of her fragile sanity. Will she maintain her
humanity? Or will she truly become the Empire’s monster?
Fire Falling is the second book in the Air Awakens Series.
Title: "Passenger"
Series: Passenger, #1
Author: Alexandra Bracken
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Published: January 5, 2016
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Genres: Young Adult, Time Travel, Adventure
Pages: 486
Format: Hardcover
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Passage, n.
i. A brief section of music composed of a series of notes and flourishes.
ii. A journey by water; a voyage.
iii. The transition from one place to another, across space and time.
In
one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she
knows and loves. Thrust into an unfamiliar world by a stranger with a
dangerous agenda, Etta is certain of only one thing: she has traveled
not just miles but years from home. And she’s inherited a legacy she
knows nothing about from a family whose existence she’s never heard of.
Until now.
Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free
from the Ironwoods—a powerful family in the colonies—and the servitude
he’s known at their hands. But with the arrival of an unusual passenger
on his ship comes the insistent pull of the past that he can’t escape
and the family that won’t let him go so easily. Now the Ironwoods are
searching for a stolen object of untold value, one they believe only
Etta, Nicholas’ passenger, can find. In order to protect her, he must
ensure she brings it back to them—whether she wants to or not.
Together,
Etta and Nicholas embark on a perilous journey across centuries and
continents, piecing together clues left behind by the traveler who will
do anything to keep the object out of the Ironwoods’ grasp. But as they
get closer to the truth of their search, and the deadly game the
Ironwoods are playing, treacherous forces threaten to separate Etta not
only from Nicholas but from her path home... forever.
Title: "A Court of Mist and Fury"
Series: A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2
Author: Sarah J. Maas
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Published: May 3, 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Genres: New Adult, Fantasy, Adventure
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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Feyre survived
Amarantha's clutches to return to the Spring Court--but at a steep cost.
Though she now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human,
and it can't forget the terrible deeds she performed to save Tamlin's
people.
Nor has Feyre forgotten her bargain with Rhysand, High
Lord of the feared Night Court. As Feyre navigates its dark web of
politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms--and she
might be key to stopping it. But only if she can harness her harrowing
gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her
future--and the future of a world cleaved in two.
With more than a
million copies sold of her beloved Throne of Glass series, Sarah J.
Maas's masterful storytelling brings this second book in her seductive
and action-packed series to new heights.
Title: "The Power"
Series: Titan, #2
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
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Published: February 23, 2016
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press
Genres: New Adult, Paranormal, Romance
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
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With any great change,
there is always strife, and the Covenant University has become the
frontline between pure-bloods who want the Breed Order reinstated and
the half-bloods who want the right to control their own destinies.
Fate has other plans.
The
violence is escalating and war between the races seems inevitable, and
it couldn’t come at a worse time. Hyperion may be out of commission, but
Josie and Seth know they have only earned a reprieve. Seth must get
Josie fully prepared, which means controlling her newfound abilities,
and they need to find the other demigods before the Titans do.
But the gods are sensing a greater threat.
Only
one thing is more dangerous than a bunch of starved Titans, and that’s
an out-of-control Apollyon. The aether in Josie is drawing Seth in
deeper, and when lust mixes with love and gives way to power, he knows
being close to her is not only dangerous to her, but to everyone around
them, but letting her go requires a level of selflessness that just
isn’t Seth’s style.
The paths taken in the past are becoming the roads of the future.
Just
as chaos breaks out, familiar faces from the past return, complicating
the already strained bond between Josie and Seth, and when the danger
from the Titans erupts with devastating consequences, the dark allure of
power calls to Seth again, but this time Josie might not be able to
pull him back.
And when the struggle between power and love becomes the deadliest battleground, there may be no salvation.
Title: "The Return"
Series: Titan, #1
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
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Published: February 16, 2015
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press
Genres: New Adult, Paranormal, Romance
Pages: 335
Format: Paperback
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The Fates are cackling their bony asses off…
It’s
been a year since Seth made the deal with the gods that pledged his
life to them. And so far, the jobs they’ve given him have been violent
and bloody–which is kind of all right with him. But now Apollo has
something else in mind for Seth. He’s got to play protector while
keeping his hands and fingers off, and for someone who really has a
problem with restraint, this new assignment might be the most
challenging yet.
Josie has no idea what this crazy hot guy’s deal
might be, but it’s a good bet that his arrival means the new life she
started after leaving home is about to be thrown into an Olympian-sized
blender turned up to puree. Either Josie is going insane or a nightmare
straight out of ancient myth is gunning for her.
But it might be
the unlikely attraction simmering between her and the golden-eyed,
secret-keeping Seth that may prove to be the most dangerous thing of
all.
Because history has once again been flipped to repeat.
Book 1 in the new adult paranormal TITAN series, spin-off to the best selling COVENANT series.
Title: "The Mirror King"
Series: The Orphan Queen, #2
Author: Jodi Meadows
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Published: April 5, 2016
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Adventure
Pages: 531
Format: Hardcover
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Wilhelmina has a hundred enemies.
HER
FRIENDS HAVE TURNED. After her identity is revealed during the
Inundation, Princess Wilhelmina is kept prisoner by the Indigo Kingdom,
with the Ospreys lost somewhere in the devastated city. When the
Ospreys’ leader emerges at the worst possible moment, leaving Wil’s
biggest ally on his deathbed, she must become Black Knife to set things
right.
HER MAGIC IS UNCONTROLLABLE. Wil’s power is to animate,
not to give true life, but in the wraithland she commanded a cloud of
wraith mist to save herself, and later ordered it solid. Now there is a
living boy made of wraith—destructive and deadly, and willing to do
anything for her.
HER HEART IS TORN. Though she’s ready for her
crown, declaring herself queen means war. Caught between what she wants
and what is right, Wilhelmina realizes the throne might not even matter.
Everyone thought the wraith was years off, but already it’s destroying
Indigo Kingdom villages. If she can’t protect both kingdoms, soon there
won’t be a land to rule.
In this stunning conclusion to THE
ORPHAN QUEEN, Jodi Meadows follows Wilhelmina’s breathtaking and brave
journey from orphaned criminal on the streets to magic-wielding queen.
Title: "Forged"
Series: Taken, #3
Author: Erin Bowman
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Published: April 14, 2015
Publisher: HarperTeen
Genres: Young Adult, Dystopia, Romance
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Source: MeL Cat
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The time has come to make a stand.
Gray
Weathersby and his group of rebels are determined to bring down the
Franconian Order. But they may be too late. The Order is closer than
ever to its ultimate goal—building an unstoppable army—and every
generation of Forgeries is more sophisticated, harder to detect, and
deadlier than the one before.
Now the rebels have joined forces
with new allies, the Expats. But when even the most familiar faces can’t
be trusted, Gray will have to tread carefully if he wants to succeed—or
survive.
Title: "The Winner's Kiss"
Series: The Winner's Trilogy, #3
Author: Marie Rutkoski
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Published: March 29, 2016
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (BYR)
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance
Pages: 484
Format: Hardcover
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Some kisses come at a price.
War
has begun. Arin is in the thick of it with untrustworthy new allies and
the empire as his enemy. Though he has convinced himself that he no
longer loves Kestrel, Arin hasn’t forgotten her, or how she became
exactly the kind of person he has always despised. She cared more for
the empire than she did for the lives of innocent people—and certainly
more than she did for him.
At least, that’s what he thinks.
In
the frozen north, Kestrel is a prisoner in a brutal work camp. As she
searches desperately for a way to escape, she wishes Arin could know
what she sacrificed for him. She wishes she could make the empire pay
for what they’ve done to her.
But no one gets what they want just by wishing.
As
the war intensifies, both Kestrel and Arin discover that the world is
changing. The East is pitted against the West, and they are caught in
between. With so much to lose, can anybody really win?
Title: "The Shadow Queen"
Series: Ravenspire, #1
Author: C.J. Redwine
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Published: February 16, 2016
Publisher: Balzar + Bray
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Retelling
Pages: 387
Format: Hardcover
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Lorelai Diederich,
crown princess and fugitive at large, has one mission: kill the wicked
queen who took both the Ravenspire throne and the life of her father. To
do that, Lorelai needs to use the one weapon she and Queen Irina have
in common—magic. She’ll have to be stronger, faster, and more powerful
than Irina, the most dangerous sorceress Ravenspire has ever seen.
In
the neighboring kingdom of Eldr, when Prince Kol’s father and older
brother are killed by an invading army of magic-wielding ogres, the
second-born prince is suddenly given the responsibility of saving his
kingdom. To do that, Kol needs magic—and the only way to get it is to
make a deal with the queen of Ravenspire, promise to become her personal
huntsman…and bring her Lorelai’s heart.
But Lorelai is nothing
like Kol expected—beautiful, fierce, and unstoppable—and despite dark
magic, Lorelai is drawn in by the passionate and troubled king. Fighting
to stay one step ahead of the dragon huntsman—who she likes far more
than she should—Lorelai does everything in her power to ruin the wicked
queen. But Irina isn’t going down without a fight, and her final move
may cost the princess the one thing she still has left to lose.
Title: "Reign of Shadows"
Series: Reign of Shadows, #1
Author: Sophie Jordan
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Published: February 9, 2016
Publisher: HarperTeen
Genres: Young Adult, Retelling, Fantasy
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Seventeen years ago, an
eclipse cloaked the kingdom of Relhok in perpetual darkness. In the
chaos, an evil chancellor murdered the king and queen and seized their
throne. Luna, Relhok’s lost princess, has been hiding in a tower ever
since. Luna’s survival depends on the world believing she is dead.
But
that doesn’t stop Luna from wanting more. When she meets Fowler, a
mysterious archer braving the woods outside her tower, Luna is drawn to
him despite the risk. When the tower is attacked, Luna and Fowler escape
together. But this world of darkness is more treacherous than Luna ever
realized.
With every threat stacked against them, Luna and
Fowler find solace in each other. But with secrets still unspoken
between them, falling in love might be their most dangerous journey yet.
Title: "A Girl of Fire and Thorns"
Series: Fire and Thorns, #1
Author: Rae Carson
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Published: September 20, 2011
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Adventure
Pages: 423
Format: Paperback
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Once a century, one
person is chosen for greatness. Elisa is the chosen one. But she is also
the younger of two princesses. The one who has never done anything
remarkable, and can't see how she ever will. Now, on her sixteenth
birthday, she has become the secret wife of a handsome and worldly
king—a king whose country is in turmoil. A king who needs her to be the
chosen one, not a failure of a princess.
And he's not the only
one who seeks her. Savage enemies, seething with dark magic, are hunting
her. A daring, determined revolutionary thinks she could be his
people's savior. Soon it is not just her life, but her very heart that
is at stake.
Elisa could be everything to those who need her
most. If the prophecy is fulfilled. If she finds the power deep within
herself. If she doesn't die young. Most of the chosen do.
Title: "In the Afterlight"
Series: The Darkest Minds, #3
Author: Alexandra Bracken
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Published: October 28, 2014
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Genres: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Romance
Pages: 535
Format: Hardcover
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Ruby can't look back.
Fractured by an unbearable loss, she and the kids who survived the
government's attack on Los Angeles travel north to regroup. With them is
a prisoner: Clancy Gray, son of the president, and one of the few
people Ruby has encountered with abilities like hers. Only Ruby has any
power over him, and just one slip could lead to Clancy wreaking havoc on
their minds.
They are armed only with a volatile secret: proof
of a government conspiracy to cover up the real cause of IAAN, the
disease that has killed most of America's children and left Ruby and
others like her with powers the government will kill to keep contained.
But internal strife may destroy their only chance to free the
"rehabilitation camps" housing thousands of other Psi kids.
Meanwhile,
reunited with Liam, the boy she would-and did-sacrifice everything for
to keep alive, Ruby must face the painful repercussions of having
tampered with his memories of her. She turns to Cole, his older brother,
to provide the intense training she knows she will need to take down
Gray and the government. But Cole has demons of his own, and one fatal
mistake may be the spark that sets the world on fire.
Title: "Frozen"
Series: Taken, #2
Author: Erin Bowman
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Published: April 15, 2014
Publisher: HarperTeen
Genres: Young Adult, Dystopia, Adventure
Pages: 359
Format: Hardcover
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The Heists were only the beginning.
Gray Weathersby escaped from the primitive town of Claysoot expecting
to find answers, but what he discovered shook him to the core: A
ruthless dictator with absolute power. An army of young soldiers blinded
by lies. And a growing rebellion determined to fight back.
Now
Gray has joined a team of rebels on a harsh, icy journey in search of
allies who can help them set things right. But in a world built on lies,
Gray must constantly question whether any ally—or enemy—is truly what
they seem…
Title: "Starflight"
Series: Starflight, #1
Author: Melissa Landers
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Published: February 2, 2016
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Genres: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Adventure
Pages: 369
Format: Hardcover
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Life in the outer realm
is a lawless, dirty, hard existence, and Solara Brooks is hungry for it.
Just out of the orphanage, she needs a fresh start in a place where
nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the
felony tattoos across her knuckles. She's so desperate to reach the
realm that she's willing to indenture herself to Doran Spaulding, the
rich and popular quarterback who made her life miserable all through
high school, in exchange for passage aboard the spaceliner Zenith.
When
a twist of fate lands them instead on the Banshee, a vessel of dubious
repute, Doran learns he's been framed on Earth for conspiracy. As he
pursues a set of mysterious coordinates rumored to hold the key to
clearing his name, he and Solara must get past their enmity to work
together and evade those out for their arrest. Life on the Banshee may
be tumultuous, but as Solara and Doran are forced to question everything
they once believed about their world—and each other—the ship becomes
home, and the eccentric crew family. But what Solara and Doran discover
on the mysterious Planet X has the power to not only alter their lives,
but the existence of everyone in the universe...
Title: "Never Fade"
Series: The Darkest Minds, #2
Author: Alexandra Bracken
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Published: October 15, 2013
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Genres: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Romance
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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Ruby never asked for
the abilities that almost cost her her life. Now she must call upon them
on a daily basis, leading dangerous missions to bring down a corrupt
government and breaking into the minds of her enemies. Other kids in the
Children’s League call Ruby “Leader”, but she knows what she really is:
a monster.
When Ruby is entrusted with an explosive secret, she
must embark on her most dangerous mission yet: leaving the Children’s
League behind. Crucial information about the disease that killed most of
America’s children—and turned Ruby and the others who lived into feared
and hated outcasts—has survived every attempt to destroy it. But the
truth is only saved in one place: a flashdrive in the hands of Liam
Stewart, the boy Ruby once believed was her future—and who now wouldn’t
recognize her.
As Ruby sets out across a desperate, lawless
country to find Liam—and answers about the catastrophe that has ripped
both her life and America apart—she is torn between old friends and the
promise she made to serve the League. Ruby will do anything to protect
the people she loves. But what if winning the war means losing herself?
Title: "Taken"
Series: Taken, #1
Author: Erin Bowman
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Published: April 16, 2013
Publisher: HarperTeen
Genre: Young Adult, Dystopian, Adventure
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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There are no men in
Claysoot. There are boys—but every one of them vanishes at midnight on
his eighteenth birthday. The ground shakes, the wind howls, a blinding
light descends…and he’s gone.
They call it the Heist.
Gray
Weathersby’s eighteenth birthday is mere months away, and he’s prepared
to meet his fate–until he finds a strange note from his mother and
starts to question everything he’s been raised to accept: the Council
leaders and their obvious secrets. The Heist itself. And what lies
beyond the Wall that surrounds Claysoot–a structure that no one can
cross and survive.
Climbing the Wall is suicide, but what comes
after the Heist could be worse. Should he sit back and wait to be
taken–or risk everything on the hope of the other side?
Title: "Siege and Storm"
Series: The Grisha, #2
Author: Leigh Bardugo
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Published: June 4, 2013
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Adventure
Pages: 435
Format: Hardcover
Source: Library
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Darkness never dies.
Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land. She finds starting new is not easy while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret. She can’t outrun her past or her destiny for long.
The Darkling has emerged from the Shadow Fold with a terrifying new power and a dangerous plan that will test the very boundaries of the natural world. With the help of a notorious privateer, Alina returns to the country she abandoned, determined to fight the forces gathering against Ravka. But as her power grows, Alina slips deeper into the Darkling’s game of forbidden magic, and farther away from Mal. Somehow, she will have to choose between her country, her power, and the love she always thought would guide her--or risk losing everything to the oncoming storm.
