Uprooted

Every ten years, the Dragon takes a girl.

The cold, reclusive wizard has protected Agnieszka's valley from the encroaching corruption of the Wood for as long as anyone can remember — and his price is always the same. One young woman, chosen from the village, spirited away to his tower for a decade of servitude. Everyone knows he'll choose Kasia, Agnieszka's beautiful, graceful best friend. Everyone is wrong.

Suddenly torn from everything she loves and thrust into the Dragon's austere world, Agnieszka expects cruelty. What she doesn't expect is the discovery that she carries her own wild, untamed magic — or that her infuriating captor seems almost as unsettled by her as she is by him. He's arrogant, demanding, and absolutely convinced she's doing everything wrong. She's stubborn, unconventional, and absolutely certain he's insufferable.

But the Wood is growing stronger, its dark influence spreading into human hearts and minds in ways that defy everything the Dragon thought he knew. As Agnieszka's power blossoms into something neither of them anticipated, the line between resentment and something far more dangerous begins to blur.

Rooted in the rich soil of Eastern European folklore and Grimm fairy tale tradition, this Nebula Award-winning fantasy is a lush, intoxicating story about power, corruption, and the most inconvenient kind of love — the kind that grows between two people who are absolutely certain they can't stand each other.