The battle between vicious spirits and strong-willed
queens that started in the award-winning The Queen of
Blood and continued in the powerful The Reluctant Queen
comes to a stunning conclusion in The Queen of Sorrow,
the final volume of Sarah Beth Durst’s Queens of Renthia
trilogy.
Queen Daleina has yearned to bring peace and prosperity
to her beloved forest home—a hope that seemed doomed when
neighboring forces invaded Aratay. Now, with the powerful
Queen Naelin ruling by her side, Daleina believes that
her dream of ushering in a new era can be realized, even
in a land plagued by malevolent nature spirits who thirst
for the end of human life.
And then Naelin’s children are kidnapped by spirits.
Nothing is more important to her than her family, and
Naelin would rather watch the world burn than see her
children harmed. Blaming the defeated Queen Merecot of
Semo for the kidnapping, Naelin is ready to start a war—
and has the power to do it.
But Merecot has grander plans than a bloody battle with
her southern neighbors. Taking the children is merely one
step in a plot to change the future of all Renthia,
either by ending the threat of spirits once and for all .
. . or plunging the world into chaos.