Books like The Curse of Chalion
Cazaril, a former courtier broken by years as a galley slave, limps home to Chalion, is made tutor to the royesse Iselle, and finds the royal house lies under a curse.
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Three Dark Crowns
On the island of Fennbirn, every generation of queens is born as triplets, each with a different gift, and when they turn sixteen they must fight to the death for the crown: Mirabella the elemental, Katharine the poisoner and Arsinoe the naturalist.
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 City of Brass
Nahri, a young con artist in eighteenth-century Cairo who does not believe in magic, accidentally summons Dara, a fierce djinn warrior, during a fake exorcism and is swept off to Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, and its feuding royal court.
Nettle & Bone
Marra, the quiet, overlooked third princess, decides to kill the prince who has married her sisters, and sets out with a dust-wife, a disgraced knight and a dog made of bones.
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.
The Belles
In Orléans, where people are born grey and must pay for beauty, Camellia Beauregard is one of the Belles who can make them beautiful, and she wants nothing more than to be named the queen's favourite.
Seraphina
In the kingdom of Goredd, where humans and dragons in human form keep an uneasy forty-year peace, Seraphina, assistant to the court composer, hides the truth about her mother, and a prince is murdered in a way that looks like a dragon's work.
Blood Song
A young man with a gift for singing magic discovers that his talent makes him valuable to warlords and dangerous to himself.
The Black Tides of Heaven
Mokoya and Akeha, twins given as children to the Grand Monastery to settle their mother the Protector's debt, grow up apart, one with the gift of prophecy and the other drawn to the rebels against her.
Barrayar
Cordelia, now married to Aral Vorkosigan, comes to live on Barrayar, a militaristic, backward world, just as Aral becomes regent for its boy emperor.
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.
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.