Fiend by Alma Katsu Children's Uprooted meets Children of Blood

Uprooted meets Children of Blood and Bone in this dark fantasy inspired by a Malian fairy tale about a disgraced girl who must serve a princess whose suitors are challenged to gruesome and impossible trials

To understand the nature of what has happened to me

and this portent is quickly dismissed when a proposal from a wealthy merchant arrives

a savior and King to those loyal to him

There she discovers a centuries-old threat--and June could be at the center of it

Fiend by Alma Katsu Children's Uprooted meets Children of BloodHistorical horror maven Alma Katsu turns her talents to the modern world for the first time, in this terrifying tale about an all powerful family with an ancient evil under its thumb. Imagine if the Sackler family had a demon at their beck and call. The Berisha family runs one of the largest import export companies in the world, and theyve always been lucky. Their rivals suffer strokes. Inconvenient buildings catch on fire. Earthquakes swallow up