The Apprentices

Lock and Key: The Initiation

Curses! Foiled Again

Forged in Fire and Stars

Darkbeast

Pathfinder

Infinity: Chronicles of Nick (Chronicles of Nick, 1)

Amulets of Acacia

Graceling Realm

Eight years have passed since the young Princess Bitterblue, and her country, were saved from the vicious King Leck. Now Bitterblue is the queen of Monsea, and her land is at peace.

But the influence of her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities, lives on. Her advisers, who have run the country on her behalf since Leck's death, believe in a forward-thinking plan: to pardon all of those who committed terrible acts during Leck's reign; and to forget every dark event that ever happened. Monsea's past has become shrouded in mystery, and it's only when Bitterblue begins sneaking out of her castle - curious, disguised and alone - to walk the streets of her own city, that she begins to realise the truth. Her kingdom has been under the thirty-five-year long spell of a madman, and now their only chance to move forward is to revisit the past.

Whatever that past holds.

Two thieves, who have sworn only to steal what has already been stolen, change her life forever. They hold a key to the truth of Leck's reign. And one of them, who possesses an unidentified Grace, may also hold a key to her heart . . .

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The Apprentices

Ian Schoenherr, Maile Meloy, 2013

Lock and Key: The Initiation

Nicola Barber, Ridley Pearson, 2016

Curses! Foiled Again

Jane Yolen, Mike Cavallaro, 2013

Forged in Fire and Stars

Andrea Cremer, Andrea Robertson, 2020

Darkbeast

Morgan Keyes, 2012

Pathfinder

Mark Zug, Angie Sage, 2014

Infinity: Chronicles of Nick (Chronicles of Nick, 1)

Sherrilyn Kenyon, 2010

Amulets of Acacia

William Meehan, 2003