The highly anticipated next book in the New York Times bestselling

award-winning Graceling Realm series

which has sold 1.3 million copies.
Four years after Bitterblue left off

a new land has been discovered to the east: Torla; and the closest nation to Monsea is Winterkeep. Winterkeep is a land of miracles

a dematic republic run by people who like each other

where people speak to telepathic sea creatures

adopt telepathic foxes as pets

and fly across the sky in ships attached to balloons.
But when Bitterblue's envoys to Winterkeep drown under suspicious circumstances

she and Giddon and her half sister

Hava

set off to discover the truth--putting both Bitterblue's life and Giddon's heart to the test when Bitterbue is kidnapped. Giddon believes she has drowned

leaving him and Hava to solve the mystery of what's wrong in Winterkeep.
Lovisa Cavenda is the teenage daughter of a powerful Scholar and Industrialist (the opposing governing parties) with a fire inside her that is always hungry

always just nearly about to make something happen. She is the key to everything

but only if she can figure out what's going on before anyone else

and only if she's willing to transcend the person she's been all her life.
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