S POILER W ARNING: This section has important plot information. This section uses content from an article at Book Series Can Celaena figure out who the killer is before she becomes a victim? As the young assassin investigates, her search leads her to discover a greater destiny than she could possibly have imagined. Then one of the other contestants turns up dead. but it's the gruff Captain Westfall who seems to understand her best. Things get a little more interesting when the prince starts to show interest in her.

If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she'll serve the kingdom for four years and then be granted her freedom. But she had to work, fight, and live under an alias that she was given by the prince.Ĭelaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilirating. Her opponents are men: thieves, assassins, and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king's council. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince.

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