Betrayed and broken, seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City—and stumbles into a world stranger than she ever imagined.
Living among squatters in the shadowy tunnels beneath the city, Val seeks escape in anonymity and asphalt. But her new companions are no ordinary street kids—they’re tangled in dangerous dealings with fae creatures that lurk beneath the surface of the mortal world.
When Val is asked to deliver a message to a mysterious troll named Ravus, she’s pulled into a web of magic, addiction, and transformation. The deeper she dives, the more she questions: who can she trust, and who is merely using her?
Holly Black’s gritty, spellbinding Valiant explores what happens when monsters become more human than the people you left behind.
