num_pages: 356
description: 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. Hes on a mission that will lead him into the north and he wants Surens 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.#1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black returns to the opulent world of Elfhame in the first book in a thrilling new duology following Jude's brother Oak and the changeling queen Suren.
language: English
title: The Stolen Heir
publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers