The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)

by Samantha Shannon

“Are you not frightened of the stories they tell of me in my native land, Eadaz uq-Nāra? There I am a child-stealer, a hag, a murderess. Monster of the tales of old.” “Tales to frighten wayward children. I do not fear that which I do not understand.”