The thrilling finale to the New York Times bestselling Young Elites series from “hit factory” Marie Lu. And thus they live on.Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes& Noble | iBooks These are only rumour,of course, and make little more than a story to tell round a fire. Then he helps her onto the horse, and she rides away with him to a faraway place, until they can no longer be seen. She walks to the boy, tilts her head up at him, and smiles.

Stilll others say that she once had a sister, and that she loved her dearly. Others say that she was once a wicked queen ,a worker of illusions, a girl who brought darkness across the lands. Some say that, once upon a time, she had a prince, a father, a society of friends. She is dressed in Sealand silk and a necklace of sapphire. Her hair and lashes are painted a shifting silver, and a scar crosses one side of her face. It brightens until it overwhelms every other star in the sky, brightens until it seems to touch the ground, and then the glow is gone, and in its place is a girl. “If you are very quiet and do not look away, you may see the brightest star in the constellation glow steadily brighter. A witness’s account of Queen Adelina’s siege on the nation of Dumor There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.” But even now, as an old man, I remember her as clearly as if she were standing before me. She nodded to her Rainmaker, and he descended from his horse to plunge a sword through the dying soldier. It is a sound I shall never forget as long as I live. I don’t know what he saw in her expression, but his muscles tightened, his legs pushing against the dirt as he tried in vain to get away from her. He trembled on the ground, but his eyes stayed on her. “She paused to look down at one of our dying soldiers. As if the goddess of Death herself had come. Where they went, the sky dimmed and the ground cracked-the clouds gathered behind the army as if a creature alive, black and churning in fury.

Her other Elites followed and then rows of white-robed Inquisitors, wielding the white-and-silver banners of the White Wolf.

“She passed through our village, through fields littered with dead soldiers after her forces overwhelmed the nation of Dumor.

The midnight star marie lu