City of a Thousand Dolls

The girl with no past, and no future, may be the only one who can save their lives.

Nisha was abandoned at the gates of the City of a Thousand Dolls when she was just a child. Now sixteen, she lives on the grounds of the remote estate, where orphan girls apprentice as musicians, healers, courtesans, and, if the rumors are true, assassins. Only when she begins a forbidden flirtation with the city’s handsome young courier does she let herself imagine a life outside the walls. Until one by one, girls around her start to die.

Readers who flock to lush fantasies like the Graceling series and Tamora Pierce’s Bloodhound books will be won over by Nisha and the captivating world of City of a Thousand Dolls.