Marie Rutkoski

Where Nirrim lives, crime abounds, a harsh tribunal rules, and society's pleasures are reserved for the High Kith. Life in the Ward is grim and punishing. People of her low status are forbidden from sampling sweets or wearing colors....

War has begun. Arin is in the thick of it with untrustworthy new allies and the empire as his enemy. Though he has convinced himself that he no longer loves Kestrel, Arin hasn’t forgotten her, or how she became exactly the kind of person he has always despised. She cared more for the empire...

Following your heart can be a crime A royal wedding is what most girls dream about. It means one celebration after another: balls, fireworks, and revelry until dawn. But to Kestrel it means living in a cage of her own making. As the wedding approaches, she aches to tell Arin the truth about her...

Winning what you want may cost you everything you love As a general’s daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, seventeen-year-old Kestrel has two choices: she can join the military or get married. But Kestrel has other intentions. One day, she is startled...

A page-turning, irresistible novel of class, ambition, and love, this is the breathtaking story of a woman risking everything for a second chance at the one who got away "A brilliant examination of queerness, friendship, motherhood, longing and ambition. It’s funny and moving and sexy...

Marie Rutkoski's startling debut novel, the first book in the Kronos Chronicles, about the risks we take to protect those we love, brims with magic, political intrigue, and heroism. Petra Kronos has a simple, happy life. But it's never been ordinary. She has a pet tin spider named Astrophil who...

A compulsive, tenacious, and unexpectedly hopeful thriller set in a Midwestern strip club, Real Easy spellbinds us and immerses us in a subculture that is all too often reduced to cliché....

Intrigue, romance, and magic abound in the heart-stopping conclusion to Marie Rutkoski’s Forgotten Gods duology....

Als Tochter des ranghöchsten Generals von Valoria hat die siebzehnjährige Kestrel nur zwei Möglichkeiten: der Armee beizutreten oder...

In quanto figlia di un potente generale di un vasto impero che riduce in schiavitù i popoli conquistati, la diciassettenne Kestrel ha...

Kestrel ist die Verlobte des Prinzen - für viele ein Traum. Aber für Kestrel fühlt es sich an wie ein Käfig, den sie selbst errichtet hat...

La guerra è cominciata. Arin ne è al centro a fianco a nuovi alleati dei quali non si può fidare per combattere contro l'impero. Anche...

Un matrimonio reale è il sogno di ogni ragazza: sfarzo, festeggiamenti e balli fino all'alba. Ma non per la bella Kestrel, per la quale...