'' Seraphina '' is a 2012 fantasy novel by Rachel Hartman and is her debut novel . The book was published on July 10 , 2012 by Random House Publishing and was ranked at number 8 The New York Times Best Seller list in its first week of publication . '' Seraphina '' was awarded the 2013 William C. Morris Award for the best young adult work by a debut author . Foreign language rights to the novel have been sold in twenty languages , including Spanish and Hebrew . A sequel entitled '' Shadow Scale '' came out in 2015 , and a companion novel '' Tess of the Road '' set in the same milieu was published in 2018
William C. Morris Award
William C. Morris Award
Seraphina (novel)