<p><b>See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with <i>Shadow and Bone</i>, now a Netflix original series. </b><br><b> Enter the Grishaverse with Book One of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by the #1 <i>New York Times</i>&#8211;bestselling author of <i>Six of Crows </i>and<i> Crooked Kingdom.</i></b><br> <b><i><br> Soldier</i></b><i>. Summoner. Saint.</i> Orphaned and expendable, Alina Starkov is a soldier who knows she may not survive her first trek across the Shadow Fold&#8212;a swath of unnatural darkness crawling with monsters. But when her regiment is attacked, Alina unleashes dormant magic not even she knew she possessed.<br> Now Alina will enter a lavish world of royalty and intrigue as she trains with the Grisha, her country's magical military elite&#8212;and falls under the spell of their notorious leader, the Darkling. He believes Alina can summon a force capable of destroying the Shadow Fold and reuniting their war-ravaged country, but only if she can master her untamed gift.<br> As the threat to the kingdom mounts and Alina unlocks the secrets of her past, she will make a dangerous discovery that could threaten all she loves and the very future of a nation. <br> Welcome to Ravka . . . a world of science and superstition where nothing is what it seems. <br> <b>A <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller</b><br> <b>A <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Bestseller</b><br> <b>An Indie Next List Book</b><br> <b>This title has Common Core connections.</b><br>Read all the books in the Grishaverse!<br><b>The Shadow and Bone Trilogy </b><br> (previously published as The Grisha Trilogy)<br> <i>Shadow and Bone</i><br> <i>Siege and Storm</i><br> <i>Ruin and Rising</i><br> <b>The Six of Crows Duology</b><br> <i>Six of Crows</i><br> <i>Crooked Kingdom</i><br><b>The King of Scars Duology</b><br><i>King of Scars</i><br> <i>The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic</i><br><i>The Severed Moon: A Year-Long Journal of Magic</i><br><b>Praise for the Grishaverse</b><br> "A master of fantasy." &#8212;<i>The Huffington Post</i><br> "Utterly, extremely bewitching." &#8212;<i>The Guardian</i><br> "This is what fantasy is for." &#8212;<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br> "[A] world that feels real enough to have its own passport stamp." &#8212;NPR<br> "The darker it gets for the good guys, the better." &#8212;<i>Entertainment Weekly</i><br> "Sultry, sweeping and picturesque. . . . Impossible to put down." &#8212;<i>USA Today</i><br> "There's a level of emotional and historical sophistication within Bardugo's original epic fantasy that sets it apart." &#8212;<i>Vanity Fair</i><br> "Unlike anything I've ever read." &#8212;Veronica Roth, bestselling author of <i>Divergent</i><br> "Bardugo crafts a first-rate adventure, a poignant romance, and an intriguing mystery!" &#8212;Rick Riordan, bestselling author of the Percy Jackson series</p>