A Ruinous Fate


 Contents
 
 Title Page
 Copyright
 Dedication
 Prologue
 Chapter 1
 Chapter 2
 Chapter 3
 Chapter 4
 Chapter 5
 Chapter 6
 Chapter 7
 Chapter 8
 Chapter 9
 Chapter 10
 Chapter 11
 Chapter 12
 Chapter 13
 Chapter 14
 Chapter 15
 Chapter 16
 Chapter 17
 Chapter 18
 Chapter 19
 Chapter 20
 Chapter 21
 Chapter 22
 Chapter 23
 Chapter 24
 Chapter 25
 Chapter 26
 Chapter 27
 Chapter 28
 Chapter 29
 Chapter 30
 Chapter 31
 Chapter 32
 Chapter 33
 Chapter 34
 Chapter 35
 Chapter 36
 Chapter 37
 Chapter 38
 Chapter 39
 Chapter 40
 Chapter 41
 Chapter 42
 Chapter 43
 Chapter 44
 Chapter 45
 Chapter 46
 Chapter 47
 Chapter 48
 Chapter 49
 Chapter 50
 Chapter 51
 Chapter 52
 Chapter 53
 Chapter 54
 Chapter 55
 Chapter 56
 Chapter 57
 Chapter 58
 Chapter 59
 Epilogue
 Acknowledgments
 About the Author
 
 
 
 Guide
 
 Cover
 Title Page
 Copyright
 Table of Contents
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Copyright © 2023 Kaylie Smith
 All rights reserved. Published by Hyperion, an imprint of Buena Vista Books, Inc. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. For information address Hyperion, 77 West 66th Street, New York, New York 10023.
 First Edition, January 2023
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 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
 Names: Smith, Kaylie, author.
 Title: A ruinous fate / by Kaylie Smith.
 Description: First edition. • Los Angeles ; New York : Hyperion, 2023. •
 Series: A heartless fates novel • Audience: Ages 14–18. • Audience:
 Grades 10–12. • Summary: In a world on the brink of war where one more
 roll from a magical die may set her down a dangerous path,
 nineteen-year-old Calla Rosewood joins a ragtag group of witches that
 ventures into an enchanted forest to find a way to reset their fates,
 only to discover that the forest may be more than any of them bargained
 for. Identifiers: LCCN 2022009425 • ISBN 9781368081597 (hardcover) •
 ISBN 9781368081610 (paperback) • ISBN 9781368081832 (ebook)
 Subjects: CYAC: Fate and fatalism—Fiction. • Witches—Fiction. •
 Magic—Fiction. • Fantasy. • LCGFT: Fantasy fiction. • Novels.
 Classification: LCC PZ7.1.S6393 Ru 2023 • DDC [Fic]—dc23
 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022009425
 Visit www.HyperionTeens.com
 
 
 Contents
 Title
 Copyright
 Dedication
 Prologue
 Chapter 1
 Chapter 2
 Chapter 3
 Chapter 4
 Chapter 5
 Chapter 6
 Chapter 7
 Chapter 8
 Chapter 9
 Chapter 10
 Chapter 11
 Chapter 12
 Chapter 13
 Chapter 14
 Chapter 15
 Chapter 16
 Chapter 17
 Chapter 18
 Chapter 19
 Chapter 20
 Chapter 21
 Chapter 22
 Chapter 23
 Chapter 24
 Chapter 25
 Chapter 26
 Chapter 27
 Chapter 28
 Chapter 29
 Chapter 30
 Chapter 31
 Chapter 32
 Chapter 33
 Chapter 34
 Chapter 35
 Chapter 36
 Chapter 37
 Chapter 38
 Chapter 39
 Chapter 40
 Chapter 41
 Chapter 42
 Chapter 43
 Chapter 44
 Chapter 45
 Chapter 46
 Chapter 47
 Chapter 48
 Chapter 49
 Chapter 50
 Chapter 51
 Chapter 52
 Chapter 53
 Chapter 54
 Chapter 55
 Chapter 56
 Chapter 57
 Chapter 58
 Chapter 59
 Epilogue
 Acknowledgments
 About the Author
 
 
 
 
 For my Meme and Baa—for giving me the gift of reading and magic
 
 The midnight constellations grinned down on the forest with polished teeth. The Fates were in good spirits tonight.
 The girl’s captor, however, was not.
 She leaned back from the cottage’s open window and watched from the corner of the cluttered room as her liege frantically wove threads across the entire expanse of the ancient map hanging on the wall. The usual dark, inky color of the thread used to track the Fates and their bargains was gone. Instead, tonight the thread 
 Calliope Rosewood was looking fate dead in the eye.
 Her opponent unfurled a devilish grin as he sifted through the black deck of cards he had been shuffling for the past few minutes. “Your move, Calla.”
 At the sound of her name, Calla finally tore her gaze away from the red Witch’s Die the other witch had just spilled into the center of the table—careful not to let the magic cube touch his bare skin—and looked down at the last bit