Her adult debut, book 1 of THE MIDDLEMIST TRILOGY, releases in spring 2023. Her latest novel, EXTASIA, is a young adult horror novel described as ' The Handmaid's Tale meets The Craft' and was a Kids' Indie Next Pick. It was also a 2018 Bram Stoker Award finalist and a 2019 Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her young adult horror novel SAWKILL GIRLS received five starred reviews. Her bestselling Empirium Trilogy consists of epic fantasy novels FURYBORN, KINGSBANE, and LIGHTBRINGER. She is one of the four authors behind THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, an anthology of dark middle grade short fiction that was a Junior Library Guild selection, a Bank Street Best Book, and among the New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing in 2014. The companion novel, THORNLIGHT, was a Kids' Indie Next Pick in 2021. Claire’s latest middle grade novel, FOXHEART, is a classic fantasy-adventure and a 2016 Junior Library Guild selection. SOME KIND OF HAPPINESS, her middle grade novel about mental illness, family secrets, and the power of storytelling, is a 2017 Edgar Award Nominee. She is also the author of THE YEAR OF SHADOWS, a ghost story for middle grade readers and WINTERSPELL, a young adult re-telling of The Nutcracker. Her first novel is THE CAVENDISH HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, one of the New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing in 2012.

Now she is a New York Times bestselling author of darkly magical books. To find her, Eliana joins a rebel captain and discovers that the evil at the empire's heart is more terrible than she ever imagined.Īs Rielle and Eliana fight in a cosmic war that spans millennia, their stories intersect, and the shocking connections between them ultimately determine the fate of their world-and of each other.Ĭlaire Legrand used to be a musician until she realized she couldn’t stop thinking about the stories in her head. A bounty hunter for the Undying Empire, Eliana believes herself untouchable-until her mother vanishes. One thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a fairy tale to Eliana Ferracora. If she fails, she will be executed.unless the trials kill her first. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven elemental magic trials. When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light, and a queen of blood.

The stunningly original, must-read fantasy of 2018 follows two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world.or doom it.

Furyborn by claire legrand