The Grass King's Concubine

The eagerly awaited new novel by the author of Living with Ghosts

Kari Sperring’s brilliant new novel is set several hundred years after her “enthralling” debut, Living with Ghosts, in a different part of the amazing, atmospheric, magical world she created.

When a wealthy young woman, obsessed with a childhood vision of a magical Shining Palace, sets out with her true love to search for a legendary land, she discovers the devastated WorldBelow — the realm of the Grass King — and the Cadre, who take her prisoner and demand she either restore the king’s concubine — or replace her...