Graceling

In a world where people born with an exceptional skill, known as a Grace, are both feared and exploited. Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the Grace of killing.

Feared by the court and shunned by those her own age, the darkness of her Grace casts a heavy shadow over Katsa's life. Yet she remains defiant, and when she stumbles across a mysterious kidnapping she investigates. Who would want to kidnap an old man, and why? And who was the extraordinary Graced man whose fighting abilities rivalled her own?

The only thing Katsa is sure of is that she no longer wants to kill. The intrigue around this kidnapping offers her a way out - but something insidious and dark lurks behind the mystery. Something spreading fiọm the shadowy figure of a one-eyed king...