The Hollow Heart

The Shadow Society

The Winner's Crime: The Winner's Trilogy

Foiled

City of Spells

Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin

The Queen's Rising

Crystal Keepers: Five Kingdoms

The Midnight Lie

Where Nirrim lives, crime abounds, a harsh tribunal rules, and society’s pleasures are reserved for the High Kith. Life in the Ward is grim and punishing. People of her low status are forbidden from sampling sweets or wearing colors. You either follow the rules, or pay a tithe and suffer the consequences.

Nirrim keeps her head down and a dangerous secret close to her chest.

But then she encounters Sid, a rakish traveler from far away who whispers rumors that the High Caste possesses magic. Sid tempts Nirrim to seek that magic for herself. But to do that, Nirrim must surrender her old life. She must place her trust in this sly stranger who asks, above all, not to be trusted.

Set in the world of the New York Times–bestselling Winner’s Trilogy, beloved author Marie Rutkoski returns with an epic LGBTQ romantic fantasy about learning to free ourselves from the lies others tell us—and the lies we tell ourselves.

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The Hollow Heart

Marie Rutkoski, 2021

The Shadow Society

Marie Rutkoski, 2012

The Winner's Crime: The Winner's Trilogy

Marie Rutkoski, 2015

Foiled

Jane Yolen, Mike Cavallaro, 2010

City of Spells

Alexandra Christo, 2021

Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin

Dugald A. Steer, Master Merlin, 2005

The Queen's Rising

Rebecca Ross, 2018

Crystal Keepers: Five Kingdoms

Brandon Mull, 2015