Emily Lloyd-Jones

A magical, ethereal fantasy from IndieBound bestselling author Emily Lloyd-Jones.
 
Once upon a time, the kingdoms of Wales were rife with magic and conflict, and eighteen-year-old Mererid “Mer” is well-acquainted with both. She is the last living water diviner and has spent years running from the prince who bound her into his service. Under the prince’s orders, she located the wells of his enemies, and he poisoned them without her knowledge, causing hundreds of deaths. After discovering what he had done, Mer went to great lengths to disappear from his reach. Then Mer’s old handler returns with a proposition: use her powers to bring down the very prince that abused them both.
 
The best way to do that is to destroy the magical well that keeps the prince’s lands safe. With a motley crew of allies, including a fae-cursed young man, the lady of thieves, and a corgi that may or may not be a spy, Mer may finally be able to steal precious freedom and peace for herself. After all, a person with a knife is one thing…but a person with a cause can topple kingdoms.

The Drowned Woods—set in the same world as The Bone Houses but with a whole new, unforgettable cast of characters—is part heist novel, part dark fairy tale.

The Drowned Woods

Courtney Passio

A person with a knife was one thing. A person with a knife and a cause could topple kingdoms. 

In the end, it was not bravery that saved her. It was sheer stubbornnes.

And in her contrary heart, that made her want to live.

You know how these things go. We make plans and then they collapse around us.

Loss had a way of eroding one's sense of self.

He had been nothing but polite, but in her experience, the best monsters were the kind that could walk openly in daylight.

Things are only immortal until you kill them

Sometimes it felt as though she were more storm than person, bringing chaos and pain everywhere she went.

Nightmares were nightmares even if one never opened their eyes.

Emma Miller

Fane shrugged. "Things are only immortal until you kill them."

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