Warrior of the Shards

Princess Kenna of Blood House has decided who to support as the next ruler of Mistei, but one wrong move shatters the fragile truce of the Accord and plunges the kingdom into civil war. In the chaos, hundreds of faeries lie dead, and Kenna and the two rebel princes are captured. With all other potential rulers imprisoned, two faeries crueller and more ambitious than even the late tyrant king claim the throne.

Kenna is sure that if they don't kill her first, her guilt will. Her misstep could have lost the war. But she will never give up, no matter what horrors the enemy inflicts on her — not when her house is looking to her for a brighter future, and not now that she has finally found someone who loves her as fiercely as she loves him.

Yet with every blow she is dealt, the limits of how far she is willing to go to win get pushed further and further out. In striving to transform Mistei for the better, Kenna risks losing her greatest strength: her humanity.

The third and final book in Sarah Hawley's Shards of Magic trilogy, after Servant of Earth and Princess of Blood. Due from Ace on 8 December 2026.