The Darkening Format:Hardcover though he has left instructions

though he has left instructions for them to participate in a contest: whoever can write the most suspenseful mystery while on the island will win a fortune and literary acclaim

she might be the only one who can identify the murderer terrorizing her town

the searchers must summon the courage to face painful ghosts from their pasts (some more vivid than others) and discover their most guarded desires and dreams

but Audrey doesn’t realize that Clare’s “popular” status is crumbling—she’s begun to question old friendships

The companion novel to Assassin’s Heart—an action-packed fantasy that Printz Award winner Laura Ruby said “will keep you turning the pages all night long”—Thief’s Cunning picks up eighteen years later and follows Allegra Saldana as she uncovers the secrets about the line of killers she descends from

The Darkening Format:Hardcover though he has left instructionsIn this thrilling and epic YA fantasy debut, the only hope for a city trapped in the eye of a cursed storm lies with the daughter of failed revolutionaries and a prince terrified of his throne. Vesper Vale is the daughter of revolutionaries. Failed revolutionaries. When her mother was caught by the queens soldiers, they gave her a choice: death by the hangmans axe, or death by the Storm that surrounds the city and curses anyone it touches. She chose