title: Ascendant: The Four Kingdoms (The Assassin Series)
author: Maryam Durrani
description: Maryam Durrani is a young author from Virginia, USA. She wrote her first fiction novel, Assassin, at age thirteen, publishing a few years later. She also wrote Ascendant at age sixteen, the second in the trilogy. Now, Maryam has followed it up with the third book in the series: Apprentice. She is well known online where she writes for young readers, one of her works reaching close to half a million reads. She is well known on Wattpad where she writes for young readers, one of her works reaching close to a million reads.
zlib_text: This one’s for the phenomenal worldwide team at Bloomsbury:  
  thank you for making my dreams come true
  
  
  And for my cunning and brilliant editor, Margaret:  
  thank you for believing in Celaena from page one
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  
  [Map](index_split_002.html#filepos1462)  
    
  
  
  [The Assassin and The Pirate Lord](index_split_003.html#filepos1748)
  
  
  [The Assassin and The Healer](index_split_014.html#filepos154878)
  
  
  [The Assassin and The Desert](index_split_021.html#filepos230829)
  
  
  [The Assassin and The Underworld](index_split_034.html#filepos446960)
  
  
  [The Assassin and The Empire](index_split_047.html#filepos663340)  
    
  
  
  [Acknowledgments](index_split_064.html#filepos861930)
  
  
  [Also by Sarah J. Maas](index_split_065.html#filepos864908)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Map](index_split_001.html#filepos587)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [THE](index_split_001.html#filepos688)  
  [ASSASSIN](index_split_001.html#filepos688)  
  [AND THE](index_split_001.html#filepos688)  
  [PIRATE LORD](index_split_001.html#filepos688)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  