Throne of Glass

After a year of brutal imprisonment in the salt mines of Endovier, eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is offered a chance at freedom. The Crown Prince of Adarlan, Dorian Havilliard, and his Captain of the Guard, Chaol Westfall, pull her from the mines with a proposition: compete in the king's tournament to become the royal champion, and if she wins — and serves the king for four years — she goes free. What follows is part competition, part murder mystery, as the other competitors begin dying in strange and violent ways. Celaena must identify the killer while surviving a court designed to destroy her, managing two very different men who are drawn to her in very different ways, and concealing the full scope of who and what she is. Set in a world where magic has been outlawed and its users brutally suppressed, Throne of Glass establishes the foundations of a war that will take seven books and an entire continent to resolve.