Throne of Glass

by Sarah J. Maas

  About the Author

  SARAH J. MAAS was sixteen years old when she published an early draft of Throne of Glass on the FictionPress website, where thousands of readers flooded her in-box with enthusiastic e-mails. Many years and revisions later, Sarah is delighted to be publishing the final version of Throne of Glass as her debut novel. A New York native, Sarah currently lives in Southern California, with her husband.

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  Text copyright © 2012 by Sarah J. Maas

  Map copyright © 2012 by Kelly de Groot

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  First published in the United States of America in August 2012

  by Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers

  Electronic edition published in August 2012

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  Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data

  Maas, Sarah J.

  Throne of glass / by Sarah J. Maas. — 1st U.S. ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin CelaenaSardothien her freedom on thecondition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.

  ISBN 978-1-59990-695-9 (hardback)

  [1. Fantasy. 2. Assassins—Fiction. 3. Princes—Fiction. 4. Court and

  courtiers—Fiction. 5. Prisoners—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.M111575Th r 2012 [Fic]—dc23 2012011229

  ISBN 978-1-59990-939-4 (e-book)