“At 18, Celaena Sardothian is serving out a life sentence in the salt mines of endoviour. She is an assassin, the best of her kind, but she made a fatal mistake. She got caught. After a year of hard labour, in the middle of the night she is dragged before the crown prince who offers Celaena her freedom with one condition, she must act as his champion in a competition to fill the role of the royal assassin - if she can beat twenty three killers, warriors and thieves. But something evil dwells in the glass castle and when some of the other competitors wind up dead in brutal ways Celaena must find out who is killing the victims before she becomes one.” In Sarah J. Mass, new book where magic has gone from the world and the tyrannic king rules
