Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass #2) by Sarah J. Maas

To my readers: thank you for making this journey such a fairy tale; thank you for the letters and art and for coming to my events; thank you for spreading the word about this series; thank you for letting Celaena into your hearts. You make the long hours and hard work absolutely worth it.

And lastly, I’d like to thank my FictionPress readers, who have been with me for so many years, and to whom I owe a debt I can never repay. No matter where this road takes me, I’ll be forever grateful that it brought you into my life. Thank you, thank you, thank you.





Books by Sarah J. Maas



Throne of Glass

Crown of Midnight





Throne of Glass novellas


The Assassin and the Pirate Lord

The Assassin and the Desert

The Assassin and the Underworld

The Assassin and the Empire





Text copyright © 2013 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 2013

by Bloomsbury Children’s Books

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This electronic edition published in 2013

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Maas, Sarah J.

Crown of midnight / by Sarah J. Maas.

pages cm

Sequel to: Throne of glass.

Summary: As the royal assassin to an evil king, eighteen-year-old Celaena Sardothien

must decide what she will fight for: survival, love, or the future of a kingdom.

[1. Fantasy. 2. Assassins—Fiction. 3. Kings, queens, rulers, etc.—Fiction.

4. Courts and courtiers—Fiction. 5. Love—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.M111575Cr 2013 [Fic]—dc23 2013009063

eISBN: 978-1-6196-3063-5

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