Crown of midnight (Throne of glass # 2)

 

Celeana has become the king's champion. She is the king's personal assassin, taking out his enemies. Then she is tasked with taking down rebels to the crown. Her first target is someone she knows: Archer Finn.

The king thinks she is actually killing her targets, but she is giving the option to fake their deaths and flee. So far everyone has agreed and it worked because she was away with Rifthold. But now her targets are in the city. 

Numbers in Calaculla, the sister labor camp to Endovier, are swelling. Nehemia wants to help them but the king refuses to see her. 

Lord Roland visits the capital. 

Something mysterious roams the castle and Celeana runs into it in the library. 

She visits the tomb again and meets Mort, a bronze door knocker who can talk. Elena isn't in the tomb. Mort explains that she is weak from the events during the last test. And has a message for her. It's not over. Cain was just the beginning, there is a deadlier power. Elena tasks her to find the source of the king's power. 

She meets with Archer Finn and tells him that the King sent her to kill him. He tells her that there is a group that wants Aelin Galathynius back on the throne of Terrasen and doesn't believe she's dead. 

Choal is kidnapped and Celeana rescues him. But she doesn't make it in time to the castle, after learning that Nehemia is in trouble. And Nehemia is dead. Celeana is broken. Choal previously learned that she is faking the deaths of people she was told to kill. He convinces the king to send her to Wedlyn to protect her. Then he learns who she really is: She is Aelin Galathynius, the lost princess of Terrasen. 😮