title: Darkening Skies: The Hadrumal Crisis Book 2
author: Juliet  E. McKenna
description: <b>Juliet E. McKenna</b> is the renowned author of <i>The Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution</i>, <i>The Tales of Einarinn</i> series and <i>The Aldabreshin Compass</i> series. A mother and Black Belt in Aikido, she lives in Oxford, England.
zlib_text: **BLACK FOREST**
  
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   **A novel by Valérie Mréjen**
  
   **Translated from the French by Katie Shireen Assef**
  
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   **Deep Vellum Publishing**
  
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  Deep Vellum Publishing is a 501c3 nonprofit literary arts organization founded
  in 2013 with the mission to bring the world into conversation through
  literature.
  
  Published in collaboration with Phoneme Media
  
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  Copyright © 2012 Valérie Mréjen
  
  Translation Copyright © 2019 Katie Shireen Assef
  
  Originally published in French by Editions P.O.L. as _Forêt noire_ in 2012
  
  ISBN: 978-1-944700-90-4 ebook ISBN: 978-1-64605-021-5
  
  Library of Congress Control Number: Forthcoming
  
  This book is distributed by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
  
  Printed in the United States of America
  
  Cover art by Lucas Rollin
  
  Typesetting and graphic 