Margaret Owen

A scrappy maid must outsmart both palace nobles and Low Gods in a new YA fantasy by Margaret Owen, author of the Merciful Crow series. Once upon a time, there was a horrible girl... Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother’s love—and she’s on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja’s otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back... by stealing Gisele’s life for herself. The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while Vanja uses an enchanted string of pearls to take her place. Now, Vanja leads a lonely but lucrative double life as princess and jewel thief, charming nobility while emptying their coffers to fund her great escape. Then, one heist away from freedom, Vanja crosses the wrong god and is cursed to an untimely end: turning into jewels, stone by stone, for her greed. Vanja has just two weeks to figure out how to break her curse and make her getaway. And with a feral guardian half-god, Gisele’s sinister fiancé, and an overeager junior detective on Vanja’s tail, she’ll have to pull the biggest grift yet to save her own life. Margaret Owen, author of The Merciful Crow series, crafts a delightfully irreverent retelling of “The Goose Girl” about stolen lives, thorny truths, and the wicked girls at the heart of both.

Little Thieves

Debut author Margaret Owen crafts a powerful saga of vengeance, survival, and sacrifice--perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Kendare Blake--in The Merciful Crow. One way or another, we always feed the crows. A future chieftain Fie abides by one rule: look after your own. Her Crow caste of undertakers and mercy-killers takes more abuse than coin, but when they’re called to collect royal dead, she’s hoping they’ll find the payout of a lifetime. A fugitive prince When Crown Prince Jasimir turns out to have faked his death, Fie’s ready to cut her losses—and perhaps his throat. But he offers a wager that she can’t refuse: protect him from a ruthless queen, and he’ll protect the Crows when he reigns. A too-cunning bodyguard Hawk warrior Tavin has always put Jas’s life before his, magically assuming the prince’s appearance and shadowing his every step. But what happens when Tavin begins to want something to call his own?

The Merciful Crow

Kings become outcasts and lovers become foes in The Faithless Hawk, the thrilling sequel to Margaret Owen's The Merciful Crow. As the new chieftain of the Crows, Fie knows better than to expect a royal to keep his word. Still she’s hopeful that Prince Jasimir will fulfill his oath to protect her fellow Crows. But then black smoke fills the sky, signaling the death of King Surimir and the beginning of Queen Rhusana's merciless bid for the throne. With the witch queen using the deadly plague to unite the nation of Sabor against Crows—and add numbers to her monstrous army—Fie and her band are forced to go into hiding, leaving the country to be ravaged by the plague. However, they’re all running out of time before the Crows starve in exile and Sabor is lost forever. A desperate Fie calls on old allies to help take Rhusana down from within her own walls. But inside the royal palace, the only difference between a conqueror and a thief is an army. To survive, Fie must unravel not only Rhusana’s plot, but ancient secrets of the Crows—secrets that could save her people, or set the world ablaze.

The Faithless Hawk

Painted Devils

Hanna Alkaf

Crack open your spell book and enter the world of the illustrious Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary. There's been a murder on campus, and it's up to the students of Galileo to solve it. Follow 18 authors and 18 students as they puzzle out the clues and find the guilty party. Professor of Magical History Septimius Dropwort has just been murdered, and now everyone at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary is a suspect. A prestigious school for young magicians, the Galileo Academy has recently undergone a comprehensive overhaul, reinventing itself as a roaming academy in which students of all cultures and identities are celebrated. In this new Galileo, every pupil is welcome—but there are some who aren't so happy with the recent changes. That includes everyone's least favorite professor, Septimius Dropwort, a stodgy old man known for his harsh rules and harsher punishments. But when the professor's body is discovered on school grounds with a mysterious note clenched in his lifeless hand, the Academy's students must solve the murder themselves, because everyone's a suspect. Told from more than a dozen alternating and diverse perspectives, The Grimoire of Grave Fates follows Galileo's best and brightest young magicians as they race to discover the truth behind Dropwort's mysterious death. Each one of them is confident that only they have the skills needed to unravel the web of secrets hidden within Galileo's halls. But they're about to discover that even for straight-A students, magic doesn't always play by the rules. . . . Contributors include: Cam Montgomery, Darcie Little Badger, Hafsah Faizal, Jessica Lewis, Julian Winters, Karuna Riazi, Kat Cho, Kayla Whaley, Kwame Mbalia, L. L. McKinney, Marieke Nijkamp, Mason Deaver, Natasha Díaz, Preeti Chhibber, Randy Ribay, Tehlor Kay Mejia, Victoria Lee, and Yamile Saied Méndez

The Grimoire of Grave Fates

As a future chieftain of the Crow caste, sixteen-year-old Fie abides by one rule: look after your own. Her clan of undertakers and mercy-killers takes more abuse than coin, but when her family is called to collect royal dead, she's hoping they'll find the payout of a lifetime.

La misericordia del cuervo / The Merciful Crow

Stur, die junge Magierin aus der Krähen-Kaste, kennt nur ein Gesetz: Beschütze die Deinen! Denn von den übrigen Kasten werden die Krähen geschmäht. Dabei versorgen sie Sterbende und Tote, ein wichtiger Dienst in einem Land, in dem die Sündenseuche tobt. Als Sturs Familie für eine Bestattung zum Phönix-Palast gerufen wird, geschieht Unerwartetes: Der angeblich tote Prinz Jasimir will ihre Hilfe! Um die böse Herrscherin zu stürzen, müssen er und der Habicht-Krieger Tavin Verbündete treffen – unter Sturs Obhut. Aber kann eine Krähe Phönix und Habicht trauen? --- Eine Geschichte über Verlust und Vergeltung, über Verzicht und Veränderung, über den Willen zu überleben – und zu lieben! ---

Knochendiebin (Die zwölf Kasten von Sabor 1)

Holy Terrors

Grimoire of Grave Fates

Fie (16) behoort tot de Kraaien, de laagste kaste van het land. Zij hebben als taak alle pestslachtoffers af te voeren. Als Fie naar het paleis wordt geroepen om de dode prins Jasimir en zijn lijfwacht tavin op te halen, belandt ze in een gevaarlijk complot. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

De genadigen

Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother's love―and she's on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja's otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back... by stealing Gisele's life for herself. The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while Vanja uses an enchanted string of pearls to take her place. Now, Vanja leads a lonely but lucrative double life as princess and jewel thief, charming nobility while emptying their coffers to fund her great escape. Then, one heist away from freedom, Vanja crosses the wrong god and is cursed to an untimely end: turning into jewels, stone by stone, for her greed. Vanja has just two weeks to figure out how to break her curse and make her getaway. And with a feral guardian half-god, Gisele's sinister fiancé, and an overeager junior detective on Vanja's tail, she'll have to pull the biggest grift yet to save her own life.

Muerte Y Fortuna

La voleuse d'os

The Fallow Year is a series of ten short stories that take place in the months between the end of Painted Devils and the beginning of Holy Terrors. They will alternate between Vanja and Emeric's POVs as they spend some time... working on themselves. Available to read for free in AO3. Chapter 1: Plausible Deniability Chapter 2:
Landfall Chapter 3: Beauty without Mercy Chapter 4:
The Agenda Chapter 5: Many Happy Returns Chapter 6:
Providence Chapter 7: Due Diligence Chapter 8: The Cycle Chapter 9: Phantom Roses, Part I Chapter 10:
Phantom Roses, Part II

The Fallow Year (Little Thieves #2.5)

Vanja et le loup

In the thrilling sequel to Little Thieves, Vanja is on the run - until she tells one too many lies, and accidentally starts a cult . . . and discovers that the deity she invented might not be so imaginary after all.

Ein Königreich in Flammen, eine Liebe in Gefahr Die Krähen-Hexe Stur ist jetzt offiziell Anführerin ihrer schutzbedürftigen Rotte. Darum hofft sie, dass Prinz Jasimir Wort hält und endlich für die Sicherheit der Krähen-Kaste sorgt. Denn erst dann kann Stur eigene Wege gehen, vielleicht zusammen mit Habicht-Krieger Tavin. Aber als Jasimirs machtgierige Stiefmutter den König tötet und den Krähen die Schuld gibt, scheint jede Chance auf eine gute Zukunft verloren. Stur sieht nur einen Weg: Sie braucht Jasimir und Tav an ihrer Seite – und genügend Phönix-Zähne, um ein Feuer zu entfachen, das das Königreich in seinen Grundfesten erschüttert. Abschlussband der düster-magischen Fantasy-Serie – eindringlich erzählt, leidenschaftlich erlebt!

Krähenzauber (Die zwölf Kasten von Sabor 2)

Fantasy román ze světa stiženého morem a se zajímavým magickým systémem, založeném na lidských zubech. Fie se připravuje na to, že se stane kapitánkou Vran: skupiny zabijáků a hrobníků, jimiž všichni jen opovrhují. Když přijde příkaz najít tělo šlechtice, cítí, že za svou práci konečně dostane pořádně zaplaceno. Jenže se ukáže, že korunní princ Jasimir svoji smrt nafingoval, čímž připravil Fie o peníze. Místo toho jí výměnou za ochranu dá nabídku, kterou nelze odmítnout. Je možné, že po letech utrpení a výsměchu se Vránám konečně blýská na lepší časy? Nakladatelská anotace.

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