The Crown of Embers [Paperback]

“Carson joins the ranks of writers like Kristin Cashore, Megan Whalen Turner, and Tamora Pierce as one of YA’s best writers of high fantasy.”—Locus Magazine

The second book in Rae Carson’s award-winning andNew York Times–bestselling trilogy! Betrayal, love, and untold power fuel the heroic adventure of a seventeen-year-old princess turned warrior-queen. Fans of Kendare Blake and Sarah J. Maas will be riveted.

She does not know what awaits her at the enemy’s gate.

Elisa led her people to victory over a terrifying, sorcerous army. Her place as queen should be secure. But it isn’t. Her enemies come at her like ghosts in a dream, from foreign realms and even from within her own court. And her destiny as the chosen one remains uncertain.

To conquer the power she bears, Elisa must journey from the hidden catacombs beneath her own city to treacherous seas and a long-forgotten island. With her go a one-eyed spy, a traitor, and the man with whom—despite everything—she is falling in love. If she’s lucky, she’ll return. But there will be a cost.

Don’t missEmpire of Dreams, Rae Carson’s action-packed return to the world of The Girl of Fire and Thorns, coming in 2020!

There are books you like, and books you love, and then there are the ones that make you go past love and straight into, I think I may need to marry this book. The Crown of Embers was that type of book for me. I adored it.Rae Carson has proved shes a master and has shaken up the YA genre. . . . Nothing is held back.Praise for The Girl of Fire and Thorns: William C. Morris Award Finalist Andre Norton Award Finalist Romantic, lush, and thought provoking.Praise for The Girl of Fire and Thorns: Fans of Tamora Pierces Beka Cooper series will find a kindred spirit in Elisa as she experiences great adversity and hlƒ7