Nightspell - Hardcover

Cypess, Leah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006195702X ISBN 13: 9780061957024

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2011

Synopsis

Here be ghosts, the maps said, and that was all.

In this haunted kingdom, ghosts linger—not just in the deepest forests or the darkest caverns, but alongside the living, as part of a twisted palace court that revels all night and sleeps through the daylight hours.

Darri's sister was trapped in this place of fear and shadows as a child. And now Darri has a chance to save her sister . . . if she agrees to a betrothal with the prince of the dead. But nothing is simple in this eerie kingdom—not her sister, who has changed beyond recognition; not her plan, which will be thrown off track almost at once; and not the undead prince, who seems more alive than anyone else.

In a court seething with the desire for vengeance, Darri holds the key to the balance between life and death. Can her warrior heart withstand the most wrenching choice of all?

About this title

Review:

“Transcendent and triumphant.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review))

About the Author:

Leah Cypess wrote her first short story—in which the narrator was an ice cream cone—at the age of six. She has degrees in biology, journalism, and law, and has traveled to Iceland, Israel, Jordan, and Costa Rica, among other places. She now lives with her family in Maryland. She is also the author of the acclaimed fantasy novels Death Marked, Mistwood, and Nightspell.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 006195702X
• ISBN 13: 9780061957024
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336