num_pages: 416
description: Seventeen-year-old Kiva Meridan has spent the last ten years fighting for survival in the notorious death prison Zalindov working as the prison healer. When the Rebel Queen is captured Kiva is charged with keeping the terminally ill woman alive long enough for her to undergo the Trial by Ordeal: a series of elemental challenges against the torments of air fire water and earth assigned to only the most dangerous of criminals. Then a coded message from Kivas family arrives containing a single order: Dont let her die. We are coming. Aware that the Trials will kill the sickly queen Kiva risks her own life to volunteer in her place. If she succeeds both she and the queen will be granted their freedom. But no one has ever survived. With an incurable plague sweeping Zalindov a mysterious new inmate fighting for Kivas heart and a prison rebellion brewing Kiva cant escape the terrible feeling that her trials have only just begun. From bestselling author Lynette Noni comes a dark thrilling YA fantasy perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Sabaa Tahir.
language: English
title: The Prison Healer
publisher: Clarion Books