Publisher's Synopsis
A cruel young queen in search of what she believes is rightfully hers. A mysterious woman willing to sacrifice her own to gain the ultimate power.
New evils, more terrifying than their predecessors, are rising and threatening the land. Gretel and Hansel have returned from the Old World to prepare for their latest quest: to find the lost books of Orphism. But one of those books, The Book of the Crippling, has already been unleashed, and its contents reveal a power unmatched in history. It is up to Gretel and Hansel, as well as their mother, Anika, who has spent the last decade as a nomad at the opposite end of the earth, to stop the converging evils from capturing the book and controlling the world. The Crippling is the fifth book in the Gretel series.
