Dragon Bones (Hurog Series #1)

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs comes the first "thrilling"* novel in the Hurog duology.

Most everyone thinks Ward of Hurog is a simple-minded fool-and that's just fine by him. But few people know that his foolishness is (very convincingly) feigned. And that it's the only thing that's saved him from death.

When his abusive father dies, Ward becomes the new lord of Hurog...until a nobleman declares that he is too dim-witted to rule. Ward knows he cannot play the foo...