I am Valshara, the black stone born of fire.
Read it on its own, or binge the entire A Classic Retold series for more uplifting and magical retellings of classical literature.. -- This clean fantasy adventure is set within the richly detailed world of Vindor and features a subterranean civilization, a Celtic fairy forest, and a West African-inspired empire.
Emily Golus re-imagines Victor Hugo\'s beloved Les Misérables as an epic fantasy adventure about suffering, redemption, and the extraordinary power of love.
Because somewhere in the darkness behind her, a bounty hunter rises-relentless as nightfall and merciless as death itself.
As she tries to smuggle the boy through the walls of a barricaded city, Valshara can\'t let down her guard.
An encounter with a rogue king turns her world upside down, and a bargain with fairy tricksters leaves her with a human child she doesn\'t know how to care for.
But navigating Vindor\'s treacherous cavern system is only the beginning of her troubles.
Condemned to a slave camp for her crimes, goblin convict Valshara Sh\'a makes a death-defying escape to freedom.
Break me, and my edges turn into knives.
I am Valshara, the black stone born of fire
