The Kingdom of Little Wounds

Hardcover, 563 pages

English language

Published Oct. 8, 2013 by Candlewick Press.

ISBN:
978-0-7636-6694-1
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OCLC Number:
827258350

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On the eve of Princess Sophia's wedding the Scandinavian city of Skyggehavn prepares to fete the occasion with a sumptuous display of riches. Yet beneath the veneer of celebration, a shiver of darkness creeps through the palace halls. A mysterious illness plagues the royal family, threatening the lives of the throne's heirs, and a courtier's wolfish hunger for the king's favors sets a devious plot in motion. In the palace at Skyggehave, things are seldom as they seem -- and when a single errant prick of a needle sets off a series of events that will alter the course of history, the fates of seamstress Ava Bingen and mute nursemaid Midi Sorte become irrevocably intertwined.

A young seamstress and a royal nursemaid at the center of an epic power struggle navigate a tangled web of palace intrigue, power lust, and deception. The plot contains sexual situations, and graphic violence.

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Subjects

  • Royal houses
  • Young adult fiction
  • Princesses
  • Wet nurses
  • Women dressmakers
  • Fiction