
But when her hood is removed and her storm-summoning killing curse revealed, Nym is snatched up by a court advisor and given a choice: be trained as the weapon Faelen needs to win the war or be killed.Ĭhoosing the former, Nym is unleashed into a world of politics, bizarre parties, and rumors of an evil more sinister than she's being prepared to fight. Standing on the auction block beneath smoke-drenched mountains, Nym faces her fifteenth sell. Because, eventually, accidentally, I will destroy you."Īs a slave in the war-weary kingdom of Faelen, seventeen-year-old Nym isn't merely devoid of rights, her Elemental kind are only born male and always killed at birth-meaning, she shouldn't even exist. If the curse-and the girl-can be controlled.

In a world at war, a slave girl's lethal curse could become one kingdom's weapon of salvation.

Between the simmering romance, the rich and inventive fantasy world, and one seriously jaw-dropping finale, readers will clamor for the next book-and I'll be at the front of the line!" - Marissa Meyer, New York Times bestselling author of the Lunar Chronicles The award-winning novel that started it all.
