The Cruel Prince

An instant bestseller! By #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black,the first book in a stunning new series about a mortal girl who finds herself caught in a web of royal faerie intrigue. Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever. And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at himI can hardly breathe. Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years laterJude wants nothing more than to belong theredespite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardanthe youngest and wickedest son of the High King. To win a place at the Courtshe must defy him–and face the consequences. In doing soshe becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptionsdiscovering her own capacity for bloodshed. But as civil war threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violenceJude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sistersand Faerie itself.