“Lily King is one of our great literary treasures.”—Madeline Miller From the New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers comes a magnificent and intimate new novel of desire, friendship, loss, and the lasting impact of first love You knew I’d write a book about you someday. Our narrator understands good love stories—their secrets and subtext, their highs and their free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the simple rules. In the fall of her senior year of college, she meets two star students from her 17th-Century Lit Sam and Yash. Best friends living off-campus in the elegant house of a professor on sabbatical, the boys invite her into their intoxicating world of academic fervor, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. They nickname her Jordan, and she quickly discovers the pleasures of friendship, love and her own intellectual ambition. Youthful passion is unpredictable though, and she soon finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. As graduation comes and goes, choices made will alter these three lives forever. Decades later, Jordan is living the life she dreamed of, and the vulnerable days of her youth seem comfortably behind her. But when a surprise visit and unexpected news brings the past crashing into the present, Jordan returns to a world she left behind and is forced to confront the decisions and deceptions of her younger self. Written with the superb wit and emotional sensitivity fans and critics of Lily King have come to adore, Heart the Lover is a deeply moving story that celebrates love, friendship, and the transformative nature of forgiveness. Wise, unforgettable, and with a delightful connective thread to Writers & Lovers, this is King at her very best, affirming her as a masterful chronicler of the human experience and one of the finest novelists at work today.

Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He’s been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined—every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute . . . and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.

In the vibrant city-state of Castellane, the richest of nobles and the most debauched of criminals have one thing in common: the constant search for wealth, power, and the next hedonistic thrill. Kel is an orphan, stolen from the life he knew to become the Sword Catcher—the body double of a royal heir, Prince Conor Aurelian. He has been raised alongside the prince, trained in every aspect of combat and statecraft. He and Conor are as close as brothers, but Kel knows that his destiny is to die for Conor. No other future is possible. Lin Caster is one of the Ashkar, a small community whose members still possess magical abilities. By law, they must live behind walls within the city, but Lin, a physician, ventures out to tend to the sick and dying of Castellane. Despite her skills, she cannot heal her best friend without access to forbidden knowledge. After a failed assassination attempt brings Lin and Kel together, they are drawn into the web of the mysterious Ragpicker King, the criminal ruler of Castellane’s underworld. He offers them each what they want most; but as they descend into his world of intrigue and shadow, they discover a conspiracy of corruption that reaches from the darkest gutters of Castellane to the highest tower of its palaces. As long-kept secrets begin to unravel, they must ask themselves: Is knowledge worth the price of betrayal? Can forbidden love bring down a kingdom? And will their discoveries plunge their nation into war—and the world into chaos?

En el latido incesante de una ciudad como ninguna otra… Un chico protege a su príncipe con la vida. Una chica está destinada a devolver al mundo la magia perdida. Un príncipe deberá escoger entre el deber y el corazón. Tres rebeldes protagonizan esta historia. A uno le educaron para reinar. A otro, para morir. Y a la tercera, para cambiar el destino. En la bulliciosa ciudad-estado de Castelana, un joven huérfano llamado Kel es arrebatado de su humilde origen para llevarlo a La Colina, donde le espera una vida llena de lujos y peligros. Desde ese momento, Kel se convierte en el sosia del príncipe Conor Aurelian, su doble, para protegerlo de cualquier amenaza. Para ello, vive como su primo, y a pesar del vínculo fraternal que nace entre ellos, la vida de Kel y la de Conor cumplen propósitos opuestos: uno debe morir por su rey, y el otro vivir para su reino. En Sault, lejos de los muros de palacio, Lin Caster, una médica ashkar, intenta aprender más sobre la antigua magia de su pueblo para salvar a su mejor amiga. Sin embargo, nadie debe saber de más sobre esta fuerza ancestral. Estudiar más allá de la magia baja puede acarrear graves consecuencias, sobre todo para los ashkar; pero Lin no piensa rendirse. Pese a la separación entre Sault y La Colina, los caminos de Kel, Conor y Lin colisionarán a causa de los urdidos del Rey Trapero, un misterioso criminal que lidera los bajos fondos de Castelana. Entrecruzados por el deber, el amor y el destino, los tres jóvenes descubrirán una insólita conspiración capaz de abocar a su nación a la guerra, y al mundo en el caos. ¿Acaso el amor prohibido puede derrocar todo un reino? «Todo lo que busco en un libro de fantasy», George R. R. Martin, autor de Juego de Tronos.

My new next-door neighbor seems to have everything figured out. Small town golden boy? Check. Single dad extraordinaire? Check. Hot baker forearms? I didn’t notice them, I swear. I, on the other hand, don’t–at all–have anything figured out. Trust me, I didn’t think taking over my mom’s dream bed and breakfast in Copper Run Vermont was going to be easy. It should be a good place to heal after my divorce. But apparently my scones belong in the garbage with my small talk skills. As pointed out by none other than Cliff. Cliff is inescapable. He knows exactly what people need–always. His charm, the way he wears flannel, and even his pastries, make not wanting to be friends with Cliff and his daughters pretty hard. Friends? I can make friends. That’s safe. Except I’m leaving in three months to pass the inn off to my little sister and get the promotion in Seattle I’ve been working towards. So ask me why I’m thinking about kissing my hot neighbor.