num_pages: 480
description: Inventive and heart-racing this fierce feminist teen fantasy explores a dark kingdom in which only women can possess magicand every woman is suspected of having it.In the ancient river kingdom where touch is a battlefield and bodies the instruments of war Mia Rose has pledged her life to hunting Gwyrach: women who can manipulate flesh bones breath and blood. The same women who killed her mother without a single scratch.But when Mia's father announces an alliance with the royal family she is forced to trade in her knives and trousers for a sumptuous silk gown. Determined to forge her own path forward Mia plots a daring escape but could never predict the greatest betrayal of all: her own body. Mia possesses the very magic she has sworn to destroy.Now as she untangles the secrets of her past Mia must learn to trust her hearteven if it kills her.Fans of Leigh Bardugo and Laini Taylor wont want to miss this gorgeously written bold novel the first in the Heart of Thorns trilogy.
language: English
title: Heart of Thorns
publisher: Katherine Tegen Books