{"title":"Kerstin Hall","description":"Kerstin Hall is the author of The Border Keeper, Second Spear, and Star Eater. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa.","products":[{"product_id":"star-eater-paperback","title":"Star Eater - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Nommo Award finalist Kerstin Hall comes \u003c\/b\u003e\"\u003cb\u003ea layered and incisive examination of power.\"--Rory Power, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilder Girls\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll martyrdoms are difficult.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElfreda Raughn will avoid pregnancy if it kills her, and one way or another, it will kill her. Though she's able to stomach her gruesome day-to-day duties, the reality of preserving the Sisterhood of Aytrium's magical bloodline horrifies her. 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As their spy, she gains access to the highest reaches of the Sisterhood, and enters a glittering world of opulent parties, subtle deceptions, and unexpected bloodshed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA phantasmagorical indictment of hereditary power, \u003ci\u003eStar Eater\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers deep into a perilous and uncanny world where even the most powerful women are forced to choose what sacrifices they will make, so that they might have any choice at all.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51374245544159,"sku":"9781250625335","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0yuC37Fyf69781250625335.webp?v=1789175616"},{"product_id":"asunder-hardcover","title":"Asunder - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eThere is no doubt in my mind that Kerstin Hall is one of the great imaginative minds writing fantasy today.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"--Isabel Cañas, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today \u003c\/i\u003eBestselling author of\u003ci\u003e Vampires of El Norte\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Read this book. Let its deliciously dark world envelop you.... You'll thank me later.\"--Veronica Roth, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eDivergent \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eChosen Ones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSabriel \u003c\/i\u003emeets \u003ci\u003eWitch King\u003c\/i\u003e in Kerstin Hall's beguiling new Nebula and Locus Award finalist novel. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReactor \u003c\/i\u003eReviewer's Choice Best Book of 2024, and a New York Public Library Best-Of Pick\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWe choose our own gods here.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKarys Eska is a deathspeaker, locked into an irrevocable compact with Sabaster, a terrifying eldritch being--three-faced, hundred-winged, unforgiving--who has granted her the ability to communicate with the newly departed. 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