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Graceling

Kristin Cashore
Contents (62)
  1. Contents
  2. Part One
  3. The Lady Killer
  4. Chapter One
  5. Chapter Two
  6. Chapter Three
  7. Chapter Four
  8. Chapter Five
  9. Chapter Six
  10. Chapter Seven
  11. Chapter Eight
  12. Chapter Nine
  13. Chapter Ten
  14. Chapter Eleven
  15. Chapter Twelve
  16. Chapter Thirteen
  17. Chapter Fourteen
  18. Chapter Fifteen
  19. Part Two
  20. The Twisted King
  21. Chapter Sixteen
  22. Chapter Seventeen
  23. Chapter Eighteen
  24. Chapter Nineteen
  25. Chapter Twenty
  26. Chapter Twenty-one
  27. Chapter Twenty-two
  28. Chapter Twenty-three
  29. Chapter Twenty-four
  30. Chapter Twenty-five
  31. Chapter Twenty-six
  32. Chapter Twenty-seven
  33. Chapter Twenty-eight
  34. Chapter Twenty-nine
  35. Chapter Thirty
  36. Part Three
  37. The Shifting World
  38. Chapter Thirty-one
  39. Chapter Thirty-two
  40. Chapter Thirty-three
  41. Chapter Thirty-four
  42. Chapter Thirty-five
  43. Chapter Thirty-six
  44. Chapter Thirty-seven
  45. Chapter Thirty-eight
  46. Chapter Thirty-nine
  47. Epilogue
  48. Acknowledgments
  49. Afterword
  50. Q&A with Kristin Cashore
  51. FIRE
  52. CHAPTER ONE
  53. CHAPTER TWO
  54. BITTERBLUE
  55. PROLOGUE
  56. PART ONE
  57. Stories and Lies
  58. CHAPTER ONE
  59. JANE, UNLIMITED
  60. Buy the Books
  61. About the Author
  62. Connect with HMH on Social Media
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Contents

Title Page

Contents

Copyright

Dedication

Map

Part One: The Lady Killer

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Part Two: The Twisted King

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-one

Chapter Twenty-two

Chapter Twenty-three

Chapter Twenty-four

Chapter Twenty-five

Chapter Twenty-six

Chapter Twenty-seven

Chapter Twenty-eight

Chapter Twenty-nine

Chapter Thirty

Part Three: The Shifting World

Chapter Thirty-one

Chapter Thirty-two

Chapter Thirty-three

Chapter Thirty-four

Chapter Thirty-five

Chapter Thirty-six

Chapter Thirty-seven

Chapter Thirty-eight

Chapter Thirty-nine

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Afterword

Q&A with Kristin Cashore

Read More from Kristin Cashore

Sample Chapters from FIRE

Sample Chapters from BITTERBLUE

Sample Chapter from JANE, UNLIMITED

Buy the Books

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Copyright © 2008 by Kristin Cashore

Afterword © 2018 by Kristin Cashore

All rights reserved. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Harcourt Children’s Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2008.

For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to [email protected] or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016.

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Cover illustration © 2021 by Kuri Huang

Maps by Jeffrey C. Mathison

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Cashore, Kristin.
Graceling/Kristin Cashore.
p. cm.

Summary: In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
[1. Fantasy.] I. Title.

PZ7.C26823Gr 2008
[Fic]—dc22 2007045436

ISBN 978-0-15-206396-2 hardcover

ISBN 978-0-547-25830-0 paperback

eISBN 978-0-547-35127-8
v10.1120

For my mother,
Nedda Previtera Cashore,
who has a meatball Grace,
and my father,
J. Michael Cashore,
who is Graced with losing (and finding) his glasses

A map of the seven kingdoms of Nander, Wester, Middluns, Estill, Sunder, Monsea, and the island of Lienid. There is a separate more detailed map of Estill, Sunder, and Monsea in particular with variou

Part One

The Lady Killer

Chapter One

IN THESE DUNGEONS the darkness was complete, but Katsa had a map in her mind. One that had so far proven correct, as Oll’s maps tended to do. Katsa ran her hand along the cold walls and counted doors and passageways as she went. Turning when it was time to turn; stopping finally before an opening that should contain a stairway leading down. She crouched and felt forward with her hands. There was a stone step, damp and slippery with moss, and another one below it. This was Oll’s staircase, then. She only hoped that when he and Giddon followed her with their torches, they would see the moss slime, tread carefully, and not waken the dead by clattering headlong down the steps.

Katsa slunk down the stairway. One left turn and two right turns. She began to hear voices as she entered a corridor where the darkness flickered orange with the light of a torch set in the wall. Across from the torch was another corridor where, according to Oll, anywhere from two to ten guards should be standing watch before a certain cell at the passageway’s end.