And last but by no means least: Spencer, thanks for discovering – much to your own surprise – that you’ve a penchant for somewhat crazy writers who can’t cook. My heart and my stomach would be in a much worse state without you.
PRAISE FOR DANIELLE L JENSEN
Praise for Danielle L Jensen
“If you love fantasies, romance, and political intrigue, then you really need to add this book to your wishlist and tell all your friends you want it for your birthday!”
Book Marks the Spot
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
175 Fifth Avenue, New York 10010
Copyright © 2014 by Danielle jensen
All rights reserved
First hardcover edition, 2014
eBook edition, April 2014
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
jensen , Danielle.
Stolen songbird / Danielle L. jensen. — First edition.
pages cm. — stolen songbird (malediction trilogy #1)
Summary:
For five centuries, a witch’s curse has bound the trolls to their city beneath the ruins of Forsaken Mountain. Time enough for their dark and nefarious magic to fade from human memory and into myth. But a prophesy has been spoken of a union with the power to set the trolls free, and when Cécile de Troyes is kidnapped and taken beneath the mountain, she learns there is far more to the myth of the trolls than she could have imagined.
Cécile has only one thing on her mind after she is brought to Trollus: escape. Only the trolls are clever, fast, and inhumanly strong. She will have to bide her time, wait for the perfect opportunity.
But something unexpected happens while she’s waiting – she begins to fall for the enigmatic troll prince to whom she has been bonded and married. She begins to make friends. And she begins to see that she may be the only hope for the half-bloods – part troll, part human creatures who are slaves to the full-blooded trolls. There is a rebellion brewing. And her prince, Tristan, the future king, is its secret leader.
As Cécile becomes involved in the intricate political games of Trollus, she becomes more than a farmer’s daughter. She becomes a princess, the hope of a people, and a witch with magic powerful enough to change Trollus forever
ISBN 978-0-374-31642-6 (hardback)
ISBN 978-0-374-31645-7 (e-book)
[1. Fantasy .] I. Title.
PZ7.A3224Alt 2013
[Fic]—dc23
2013011140
eISBN 9780374316457
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