The first installment of Rae Carson's epic fantasy trilogy, The Girl of Fire and Thorns, was named to ALA's Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults. The saga continues in The Crown of Embers, which finds Elisa fighting to secure her position as leader of the people of Orovalle. With foreign enemies threatening the kingdom and conniving rivals within her own court plotting her downfall, Elisa must defeat them all to fulfill her destiny as the chosen one.