The earth-shattering and magical epic finale to the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy by bestselling author Tomi Adeyemi, soon to be a major movie starring Cynthia Erivo!

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‘Love this series and highly recommend. I can't wait for the movie’ - Reader review

‘This book broke my heart and put it very slowly back together. I loved every heart-breaking moment and would suffer it all over again in a heartbeat’ - Reader review

‘My favorite book of the series . . . so hard to put down’ - Reader review

New allies rise.
The Blood Moon nears.
Zélie faces her final enemy.
The king who hunts her heart.

When Zélie seized the royal palace that fateful night, she thought her battles had come to an end. The monarchy had finally fallen. The maji had risen again. Zélie never expected to find herself locked in a cage and trapped on a foreign ship. Now warriors with iron skulls traffic her and her people across the seas, far from their homeland.

Then everything changes when Zélie meets King Baldyr, her true captor and the man who has ravaged entire civilizations to find her. The ruler of the Skulls, Baldyr’s quest to harness Zélie’s strength sends Zélie, Amari, and Tzain searching for allies in foreign lands.

But as Baldyr closes in, catastrophe charges Orïsha’s shores. It will take everything Zélie has to face her final enemy and save her people before the Skulls annihilate them for good.

Adeyemi’s lush world-building and consummate plotting breathes new life into a YA fantasy epic. -- The Observer on Children of Blood and Bone
Full of cinematic action sequences . . . it storms the boundaries of imagination. -- The New York Times on Children of Blood and Bone
Adeyemi could write a hundred books in this series and keep us just as gripped as we were in the first instalment. Astonishing. -- Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie, on Children of Virtue and Vengeance

Named one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people, Tomi Adeyemi is a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Nigerian-American writer and storyteller based in New York, NY. After graduating from Harvard University with an honors degree in English literature, she studied West African mythology, religion, and culture in Salvador, Brazil.

Her first novel, Children of Blood and Bone, debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list. Its highly anticipated sequel, Children of Virtue and Vengeance, also debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list. Tomi’s Children of Blood and Bone trilogy is being developed into a feature film with Paramount Pictures. Tomi can be found teaching creative writing at The Writer’s Roadmap.

In 2020, she was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Media, and her website has been named one of the 101 best websites for writers by Writer’s Digest.