#1 New York Times Bestseller! Return to the opulent world of Elfhame filled with intrigue
betrayal and dangerous desires in this gorgeous hardcover boxed set from the #1 New York
Times bestselling author Holly Black. A runaway queen. A reluctant prince. And a quest
that may destroy them both. Eight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. But
in the icy north Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. There
she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and
exact her revenge. Suren child queen of the Court of Teeth and the one person with power
over her mother fled to the human world. There she lives feral in the woods. Lonely and
still haunted by the merciless torments she endured in the Court of Teeth she bides her time
by releasing mortals from foolish bargains. She believes herself forgotten until the storm hag
Bogdana chases her through the night streets. Suren is saved by none other than Prince Oak
heir to Elfhame to whom she was once promised in marriage and who she has resented for years.
Now seventeen Oak is charming beautiful and manipulative. He’s on a mission that will lead
him into the north and he wants Suren’s help. But if she agrees it will mean guarding her
heart against the boy she once knew and a prince she cannot trust as well as confronting all
the horrors she thought she left behind.
