Title: The kingdom of little wounds
Description: On the eve of Princess Sophia's wedding the Scandinavian city of Skyggehavn prepares to fete the occasion with a sumptuous display of riches. Yet beneath the veneer of celebration, a shiver of darkness creeps through the palace halls. A mysterious illness plagues the royal family, threatening the lives of the throne's heirs, and a courtier's wolfish hunger for the king's favors sets a devious plot in motion. In the palace at Skyggehave, things are seldom as they seem -- and when a single errant prick of a needle sets off a series of events that will alter the course of history, the fates of seamstress Ava Bingen and mute nursemaid Midi Sorte become irrevocably intertwined.

A young seamstress and a royal nursemaid at the center of an epic power struggle navigate a tangled web of palace intrigue, power lust, and deception. The plot contains sexual situations, and graphic violence.
Subjects: Royal houses, Young adult fiction, Princesses, Wet nurses, Women dressmakers, Fiction, New York Times reviewed, Children's fiction, Fantasy fiction, Princesses, fiction, Renaissance, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Europe, fiction