Nightspell

Description

Here be ghosts, the maps said, and that was all. In this haunted kingdom, ghosts linger-not just in the deepest forests or the darkest caverns, but alongside the living, as part of a twisted palace court that revels all night and sleeps through the daylight hours. Darri's sister was trapped here as a child. And now Darri has a chance to save her sister . . . if she agrees to a betrothal with the prince of the dead. But nothing is simple in this eerie kingdom-not her sister, who has changed beyond recognition; not her plan, which will be thrown off track almost at once; and not the undead prince, who seems more alive than anyone else. Can Darri's warrior heart withstand the most wrenching choice of all

Leah Cypess sold her first short story while in high school, but then went on t earn her law a degree at Columbia Law School. She practiced law for two years at Devoise & Plimpton in NYC before moving to Boston, MA. She now lives in Boston with her husban

"Transcendent and triumphant." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)