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A Graceling is an extreme skill that people are born with. You can easily tell who doesn't and who does have a Graceling because if you do, your eyes will be different colors. Eighteen-year-old Katsa is a Graceling. Her Gracling is killing. Because of this, her uncle, also the king, forces her out on missions to kill his enemies.

Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight—she’s a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king’s thug.  When she first meets Prince Po, Graced with combat skills, Katsa has no hint of how her life is about to change. She never expects to become Po’s friend. She never expects to learn a new truth about her own Grace—or about a terrible secret that lies hidden far away. . . a secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms with words alone//.//