the stolen heir a novel of elfhame holly black

He doesn’t seem scared of her and treats her with kindness, but after the Battle of the Serpent, as it comes to be known, Suren is still forced back to the now disbanded Court of Teeth, with Jude having ordered that henceforth Lady Nore and Lord Jarel need to obey all of Suren’s commands. During the brief time of negotiations and attempted betrayals, Wren/Suren gets to know Prince Oak a bit better. Their plan fails spectacularly, High Queen Jude publicly chops off the head of the giant serpent that used to be her husband and saves not only High King Cardan but increases his power and their joint hold on Elfhame. Her faery parents keep her literally chained and controlled with a magic bridle and their plan is to marry Suren to Prince Oak, heir to the Greenbriar Throne, and then have him (and probably Wren/Suren) murdered, so they can be High King and Queen. She is kept captive and tortured both physically and emotionally until she’s barely a shell of her former self and an angry, vicious feral child. In the Court of Teeth, she is Queen Suren, but queen in name only. The cruel faeries, accompanied by the fearsome Stormhag threaten the lives of Wren’s human family, and though only nine years old, Wren is forced to go with them to keep her loved ones safe. Lord Jarel and Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth rip away her human glamour and make sure that Wren sees her human parents reject her faerie self (bluish skin, blue hair, mouth full of razor-sharp teeth) with horror and disgust. Wren thought she was a normal human girl until the night when scary monsters out of a nightmare came and claimed she was in fact their daughter and had to come back to Faerie with them.

The stolen heir a novel of elfhame holly black