A runaway queen. A reluctant prince. And a quest which can ruin them both.
Eight years have handed since the Battle of the Serpent. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. There, she is using an historical relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge.
Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the only individual with electricity over her mom, fled to the human international. There, she lives feral within the woods. Lonely, and nevertheless haunted by means of the cruel torments she persisted inside the Court of Teeth, she bides her time by freeing mortals from silly deals. She believes herself forgotten until the storm hag, Bogdana chases her thru the night streets. Suren is saved with the aid of none other than Prince Oak, inheritor to Elfhame, to whom she turned into once promised in marriage and who she has resented for years.
Now seventeen, Oak is captivating, stunning, and manipulative. He’s on a assignment so that it will lead him into the north, and he wishes Suren’s help. But if she is of the same opinion, it will imply guarding her heart in opposition to the boy she once knew and a prince she cannot consider, in addition to confronting all of the horrors she idea she left behind.
A runaway queen. A reluctant prince. And a quest which can ruin them both.
Eight years have handed since the Battle of the Serpent. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. There, she is using an historical relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge.
Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the only individual with electricity over her mom, fled to the human international. There, she lives feral within the woods. Lonely, and nevertheless haunted by means of the cruel torments she persisted inside the Court of Teeth, she bides her time by freeing mortals from silly deals. She believes herself forgotten until the storm hag, Bogdana chases her thru the night streets. Suren is saved with the aid of none other than Prince Oak, inheritor to Elfhame, to whom she turned into once promised in marriage and who she has resented for years.
Now seventeen, Oak is captivating, stunning, and manipulative. He’s on a assignment so that it will lead him into the north, and he wishes Suren’s help. But if she is of the same opinion, it will imply guarding her heart in opposition to the boy she once knew and a prince she cannot consider, in addition to confronting all of the horrors she idea she left behind.
1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black returns to the opulent world of Elfhame within the first e-book in a exciting new duology, following Jude’s brother Oak, and the changeling queen, Suren.
This Edition
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
Published: January 3, 2023 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780316592703 (ISBN10: 0316592706)
Language: English