The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

About “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”

A 2010 novel by N. K. Jemisin. Yeine Darr, an outcast from the barbarian north, is summoned to the city of Sky after her mother dies under mysterious circumstances and is shockingly named an heiress to the king. Thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had, she draws closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history, learning how perilous it is when love and hate, gods and mortals, are bound together.