A Kingdom for a Stage

✍ Scribed by Heidi Heilig

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0062651978

✦ Synopsis

Caught in a war between the rebels and the invading colonizers, Jetta must make an impossible choice --save her people or protect her sanity.

The second book in Heidi Heilig's acclaimed Shadow Players trilogy blends traditional storytelling with ephemera to weave an enthralling fantasy that fans of Leigh Bardugo and Sabaa Tahir will sink into.

Jetta is a wanted criminal. The army wants her for treason against the crown, for the sabotage of Hell's Court temple, and for the murder of General Legarde. They also want her for the power in her blood--the magic that captures wandering spirits to give life to puppets, to rocks, to paper . . . to weapons. They're willing to trade the elixir that treats Jetta's madness for the use of her blood. The rebels want her, too, to help them reclaim their country. Jetta may be the one who can tip the scales in this war.

But Jetta fears using her power will make her too much like Le Trepas, the...