Throne of Glass

Celaena Sardothien has survived a year in the salt mines of Endovier — a death sentence dressed up as a prison term — when the crown prince of Adarlan, Dorian Havilliard, pulls her out and makes her an offer. Compete in a royal tournament against twenty-three rival thieves and killers. Win, and serve four years as the King’s Champion. After that, freedom.

What starts as a closed-door competition inside the glass castle becomes something darker when the competitors start turning up dead.

Throne of Glass is the series opener — a tightly plotted palace-intrigue thriller that introduces Celaena, Dorian, the Captain of the Guard Chaol Westfall, and the broader world of Erilea.