Throne of Glass

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)