Books like Kushiel's Dart
Phèdre nó Delaunay, sold into service as a child and marked by a god to find pleasure in pain, is trained as a courtesan and a spy, and stumbles onto a plot that threatens her whole country.
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The Bridge Kingdom
Lara, a princess raised in a desert compound and trained as a spy, is sent to marry the king of Ithicana, the island nation that controls the only bridge between two continents, with orders to find its weaknesses and bring it down.
The Hurricane Wars
Talasyn, an orphaned soldier who can weave light, has spent ten years fighting the Night Empire, whose heir Alaric commands shadow. After a defeat on the battlefield, a political marriage binds the two enemies together.
Gloriana
In Albion, an empire much like Elizabethan England, Queen Gloriana keeps her golden age of peace by leaving its darker work to her old chancellor, who hires a brilliant, amoral rogue named Quire.
The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Oraya, the human adopted daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, enters the Kejari, a deadly tournament held for the goddess of death, and is forced into an alliance with Raihn, a rival vampire she has every reason to fear.
From Blood and Ash
Poppy, the veiled Maiden chosen by the gods, is forbidden to touch or be touched, until Hawke, the guard sworn to protect her, makes her question everything she has been told about the kingdom and its gods.
The Pariah
Alwyn, raised among the outlaws of the Shavine Forest, is captured after his band is ambushed and sent to the mines, where he learns to read and write, and the road that follows leads him to Lady Evadine Courlain, a captain whose visions speak of a coming apocalypse.
The Unicorn Hunters
In 1490 Anne, the young duchess of Brittany, is under pressure to make a marriage that will hand her duchy to its enemies, and to buy time she lures the French envoy into a hunt for a unicorn in the enchanted forest of Brocéliande.
Strange the Dreamer
Lazlo Strange, an orphan and junior librarian who has spent his life dreaming of the lost city of Weep, gets his chance when a hero from that city arrives seeking help with a problem no one will name.
Assassin's Apprentice
A six-year-old royal bastard left at Buckkeep Castle is raised in the stables and secretly trained by the king's assassin while he discovers two forbidden magics, the Skill and the Wit.
The Cruel Prince
Jude, a mortal girl brought to the High Court of Faerie as a child after her parents were murdered, wants a place among the fair folk who despise her, and to get it she must defy Prince Cardan, the cruellest of them.
The Black Prism
A former emperor imprisoned for sixteen years is freed into a world at war, where his forbidden colour magic is the only hope.
Girls of Paper and Fire
Lei, a girl of the lowest, fully human Paper caste, is taken from her village to the palace of the Demon King to serve as one of his Paper Girls, and finds herself falling for another of the chosen girls, Wren.