TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johansen,Erika
TI  - Beneath the keep: a novel of the Tearling 
T2  - A novel of the Tearling
SN  - 9781524742720
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - [New York, New York]
PB  - Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Randm House LLC
KW  - Princesses
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Courts and courtiers
KW  - Assassins
KW  - Revenge
KW  - Insurgency
KW  - Fantasy fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Bildungsromans
N2  - The Tearling, founded as a utopia, has collapsed and reverted to feudalism. As the gap between rich and poor widens and famine threatens the land, rumors of a prophecy begin to spread: a great hope, a True Queen who will ascend and save the kingdom. Lazarus, a boy on the verge of manhood, is trapped in the underworld known as the Creche. Enlisted from his earliest days to kill without mercy, he has never seen sun or sky until a quest for vengeance propels him aboveground. Amid a royal court rife with intrigue and danger he meets Niya, Princess Elyssa's handmaid, who is not what she appears to be - and whose true identity will spell death if revealed. -- adapted from jacket
ER  -