Sword Catcher

'Everything I look for in fantasy' - George R. R. Martin

Two outcasts find themselves caught in a web of dangerous magic and dark secrets that could change the world forever . . .

From the author of the Shadowhunter Chronicles

,

Sword Catcher

by Cassandra Clare is start of a riveting epic fantasy series with expert worldbuilding, political intrigue and swordplay.

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One was raised to rule. One was trained to die . . .

In the vibrant city-state of Castellane, Kel is an orphan, stolen from his old impoverished life to become Prince Conor Aurelian's body-double. As his 'Sword Catcher', he and Conor will become as close as brothers. Yet Kel lives for one purpose: to die for Conor.

Lin Caster is an Ashkar physician, part of a community ostracized for its rare magical abilities. After a failed assassination attempt pulls her and Kel together, they are drawn into the web of the mysterious Ragpicker King, who rules Castellane's criminal underworld. But as long-kept secrets are uncovered and forbidden attractions blossom, will their discoveries plunge their land into war - and nations into chaos?

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'Spellbinding' - Leigh Bardugo,

Sunday Times

bestselling author of

Ninth House

'A triumph of a book'

- Holly Black, No. 1

Sunday Times

bestselling author of

Book of Night

'Vivid and clever' - Scott Lynch, bestselling author of the Gentleman Bastard sequence

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Continue the action in

The Ragpicker King

.

Sword Catcher

was a top ten

Sunday Times

bestseller w/c 5th October 2024.