Claire Legrand in conversation with Annie Berger

Annie Berger is a senior editor at Sourcebooks, working primarily on YA and middle-grade novels. Annie started out as an editorial assistant at Simon & Schuster’s Aladdin imprint and was most recently an associate editor at HarperCollins before joining the Sourcebooks team.

Claire Legrand is the author of several novels for children and young adults, most notably The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls, Some Kind of Happiness, Winterspell, a young adult re-telling of The Nutcracker, Foxheart, and The Empirium Trilogy. She is also one of the four authors behind The Cabinet of Curiosities, an anthology of dark middle grade short fiction. Lightbringer (Sourcebooks Fire) is the third and final installment of the Empirium Trilogy, following New York Times bestselling Furyborn,  and  Kingsbane. In this epic finale, Rielle and Eliana, two queens separated by a thousand years, must face their ultimate destinies. Queen Rielle, pushed away from everything she loves, turns to Corien and his promises of glory. Meanwhile, as she goes mad, Rielle embraces the role of Blood Queen and her place by Corien’s side, determined to become the monster the world believes her to be. In the future, Eliana arrives in the Empire’s capital as a broken shell of herself. But when the mysterious Prophet reveals themselves at last, everything changes, giving Rielle and Eliana a second chance for salvation–or the destruction their world has been dreading. Kirkus Reviews praised as “[A] conclusion sure to satisfy fans of the trilogy.”