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

by Samantha Shannon

She must be destined to be rootless, like a seed tossed on the wind.

His professor had been right, as always. She had often said that the true alchemy was the work, not its completion. Niclays had thought it was her way of comforting those who never made any progress.

“I will teach my heart to beat again.”