“Somehow in the chaos and mess she'd discovered who she was. Not a girl of the streets, though that was where she'd been raised. Not a woman of the court, though she appreciated the beauty and the grace of the balls. Someone else. Someone she liked.”

American author of high fantasy, science fiction, and young adult fiction

Brandon Sanderson is an American author of high fantasy, science fiction, and young adult fiction. He is known for the Mistborn series and The Stormlight Archive, both set in his fictional Cosmere universe. He has also written several young adult and juvenile series outside the Cosmere, including The Reckoners, Skyward, and Alcatraz. Sanderson is also known for finishing Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, and for creating the graphic novels White Sand and Dark One.