![]() ![]() As Elske seeks to find her true self and Beriel battles to reclaim what is rightfully hers, both discover the value, and the price, of reaching the journey's end. With immense power and compassion, Cynthia Voigt, Newbery Medalist, depicts the parallel quests of two extraordinary young women. Newbery Medalist Cynthia Voigt depicts the parallel quests of two extraordinary young women with power and compassion in this fourth and final book in the Tales of the Kingdom series.Elske is a girl with no futureuntil her grandmother’s sacrifice saves her from certain death. What Beriel did not have was the one thing she valued above all else, and that was the throne to her kingdom. She had always made her own choices, even when they were forced upon her. ![]() She had always had a heart, and a stubborn one. But the princess Beriel had always known who she was and what she was worth. And she never knew her own value, until she met the man who understood her strength, and who could taste the honey in her name: Elske. She never knew she had a choice, until she chose to trust the princess she was told to serve. Thirteen-year-old Elske escapes rape and certain death at the hands of the leaders of her barbaric. She never knew she had a heart, until she set out on a journey north to live among strangers. From the time she was a child, she was prepared to sacrifice her life when the Volkking summoned her. ![]()
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