His sweat carries the scent of crushed grass, but mostly he smells like blood. He watches me, lashes low over his eyes. Without his golden armor, he almost looks like the boy I remember. Eight years have passed 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 ancient 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 one person with power over her mother, has fled to the human world, where she lives feral in the woods. Oak, now seventeen, is charming, beautiful and manipulative. He's on a mission that will lead him into the citadel, and he wants Suren's help. But if she agrees, it will mean guarding her heart against the boy she once knew and a prince she cannot trust, as well as confronting all the horrors she thought she'd left behind.
Return to the opulent world of Elfname in this first book of a captivating new duology from no.1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black.
His sweat carries the scent of crushed grass, but mostly he smells like blood. He watches me, lashes low over his eyes. Without his golden armor, he almost looks like the boy I remember. Eight years have passed 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 ancient 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 one person with power over her mother, has fled to the human world, where she lives feral in the woods. Oak, now seventeen, is charming, beautiful and manipulative. He's on a mission that will lead him into the citadel, and he wants Suren's help. But if she agrees, it will mean guarding her heart against the boy she once knew and a prince she cannot trust, as well as confronting all the horrors she thought she'd left behind.
Return to the opulent world of Elfname in this first book of a captivating new duology from no.1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black.