Shelf Awareness, starred review ★ Delicately, inexorably plotted, this is a captivating novel of action and ideas. this gripping tale of spies, romantic tension and moral dilemmas. Review Quotes A New York Times Best Seller ★ Cashore's fourth Graceling novel features two strong, but very different, female protagonists. The Graceling Realm books are a companion series, not direct sequels, so they can be enjoyed in any order. The teenage daughter of two powerful politicians, she is the key to unlocking everything-but only if she's willing to transcend the person she's been all her life. Meanwhile, in Winterkeep, Lovisa Cavenda waits and watches, a fire inside her that is always hungry.

On the way, tragedy strikes again-a tragedy with devastating political and personal ramifications. But when the envoys never return, having drowned under suspicious circumstances, Bitterblue sets off for Winterkeep herself, along with her spy Hava and her trusted colleague Giddon. After learning about the land of Torla in the east, she sends envoys to the closest nation there: Winterkeep-a place where telepathic foxes bond with humans, and people fly across the sky in wondrous airships.

For the past five years, Bitterblue has reigned as Queen of Monsea, heroically rebuilding her nation after her father's horrific rule. About the Book 'Queen Bitterblue of Monsea must head to the nation of Winterkeep after her envoys drown in suspicious circumstances, and somewhere there, Lovisa Cavenda waits and watches while tragedy with devastating political and personal ramification strikes'-īook Synopsis The highly anticipated next book in the New York Times bestselling, award-winning Graceling Realm series, which has sold 1.7 million copies.

Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore