Author: rachelhartman

Award-winning Rachel Hartman’s newest YA is a tour de force and an exquisite fantasy for the #metoo movement.“Tess of the Road is astonishing and perfect. It’s the most compassionate book I’ve read since George Eliot’s Middlemarch.” –NPRIn the medieval kingdom of Goredd, women are expected to be ladies, men are their protectors, and dragons can be whomever they choose. Tess is none of these … can be whomever they choose. Tess is none of these things. Tess is. . . different. She speaks out of turn, has wild ideas, and can’t seem to keep out of trouble. Then Tess goes…

In this “lush, intricately plotted” New York Times bestseller (The Washington Post), a royal murder threatens the uneasy peace between dragons and humans, and Seraphina hides a deadly secret. “A book worth hoarding… with a heroine who insists on carving herself a place in your mind” (Naomi Novik).