当魔法从世界上消失，邪恶的国王从他的玻璃宝座统治，一个刺客来到城堡。她不是来杀人的，而是来争取自由的。如果她能在寻找这片土地上最伟大的刺客的比赛中击败23个杀手、小偷和战士，她将成为国王的冠军并被释放出狱。

她叫塞莱娜·萨多蒂安。

王储会激怒她的。警卫队长会保护她。

一位来自异国的公主将成为塞莱娜从未想过的东西：一个朋友。

但是城堡里住着邪恶的东西——它是用来杀人的。当她的竞争对手开始一个接一个地死去时，塞莱娜为自由而战就变成了为生存而战——在邪恶毁灭她的世界之前，她不顾一切地寻求铲除邪恶的根源。

When magic has gone from the world, and a vicious king rules from his throne of glass, an assassin comes to the castle. She does not come to kill, but to win her freedom. If she can defeat twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors in a competition to find the greatest assassin in the land, she will become the King’s Champion and be released from prison.

Her name is Celaena Sardothien.

The Crown Prince will provoke her. The Captain of the Guard will protect her.

And a princess from a foreign land will become the one thing Celaena never thought she’d have again: a friend.

But something evil dwells in the castle–and it’s there to kill. When her competitors start dying, horribly, one by one, Celaena’s fight for freedom becomes a fight for survival–and a desperate quest to root out the source of evil before it destroys her world.