A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER

The Selection meets Reign in this dazzling trilogy of interwoven novels about three girls on the quest for freedom and real love from #1 internationally bestselling author Richelle Mead.

‘Brilliant and original, Mead’s brand-new series begins with a bang and will leave readers in the advantage of their seats until the very end.’

-College Library Journal

For any select band of women, the Glittering Courtroom presents a about The Glittering Courtroom shot at a life they’ve only ever dreamed of, one of high end, glamour, and amusement. To high-born Adelaide, whose wealthy family can be forcing her right into a loveless relationship, the Glittering Courtroom represents something else: the chance to chart her very own destiny, and experience in an unspoiled, prosperous new land over the sea.

After a chance ending up in the stunning Cedric Thorn, Adelaide poses like a servant to join the crop of impoverished ladies he promises to transform into correct women. But her familiarity with upper class life comes with a price: she must conceal her identification from her fresh friends, mysterious refugee Mira and fiery former laundress Tamsin, and most significantly, from Cedric himself-even though she’s falling deeply in love with him.

Everything begins to crumble when Cedric discovers Adelaide’s ruse, and she catches the eye of a powerful young governor, who wants her for any wife. She didn’t keep the gilded cage of her older life behind merely to become somebody else’s home. But nothing is as daunting-or as wonderful-as the powerful, forbidden attraction simmering between Adelaide and Cedric. One which, if acted on, would make them both outcasts within a crazy, dangerous, uncharted world, and possibly lead them to their deaths.