

She’s lived in isolation in the woods ever since, hiding from humans and faeries alike.Ī charismatic and beguiling young man, Oak has spent much of his adolescence in the cutthroat Faerie court learning to combat the many assassination attempts on his life. There, she endured years of humiliation and abuse before finally making her escape. She spent a blissful childhood among humans until her vicious faerie parents, Lord Jarel and Lady Nore, stole her away to the Ice Needle Citadel in the Court of Teeth. Wren grew up a changeling, a faerie left in the care of a mortal family when she was just a toddler. The Stolen Heir follows Wren, the exiled queen of the Court of Teeth, and Prince Oak, the heir to Elfhame and Wren’s former betrothed. 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 left behind.Author Holly Black returns to the world of Faerie with this highly anticipated spinoff from her bestselling Folk of the Air trilogy. He's on a mission that will lead him into the north, and he wants Suren's help. Now seventeen, Oak is charming, beautiful, and manipulative.

Suren is saved by none other than Prince Oak, heir to Elfhame, to whom she was once promised in marriage and who she has resented for years. She believes herself forgotten until the storm hag, Bogdana chases her through the night streets. Lonely, and still haunted by the merciless torments she endured in the Court of Teeth, she bides her time by releasing mortals from foolish bargains. Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the one person with power over her mother, fled to the human world. There, she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. Return to the opulent world of Elfhame, filled with intrigue, betrayal, and dangerous desires, with this first book of a captivating new duology from the #1Įight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent.
