Enter Zalindov with Kiva
Start with The Prison Healer; its ending leads directly into The Gilded Cage.
Book Series · 3 Books
The Prison Healer Books
In order from The Prison Healer to The Blood Traitor.
Lynette Noni's completed YA fantasy trilogy follows teenage healer Kiva Meridan from survival inside a brutal prison to divided loyalties, rebellion, and a fight over her kingdom's future.
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Reading order
How to Read The Prison Healer
Read The Prison Healer, The Gilded Cage, and The Blood Traitor in numbered order. Each book begins after the previous novel's major turn, so skipping ahead would reveal central secrets.
The trilogy is complete, and no separate novella is required to understand Kiva's story.
Sources: Lynette Noni's official trilogy page.
For parents
What Parents Should Know
The series opens in a deadly prison and includes abuse by guards, imprisonment, disease, dangerous elemental ordeals, torture and threats, fighting, serious injuries, war, betrayal, revenge, grief, and character deaths.
Romance and kissing are important but do not replace the high-stakes fantasy plot. Family loyalty is morally complicated, and later books ask Kiva to reckon with deception and harm caused by people she loves.
Where to start
Where Should My Teen Start?
Where the story begins
First Book in the Series
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Book #1 · Chapter Book · Ages 12–+ · 2021
The Prison Healer
By Lynette Noni
A healer risks everything in deadly trials to save a queen and herself from a brutal prison.
432 pages· 117,266 words· Est. 13 hour read
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Summary: In the brutal prison of Zalindov, Kiva Meridan, a young healer, faces a harrowing choice. To save the captured Rebel Queen and herself, she must endure deadly elemental trials. With a plague spreading, a mysterious inmate stirring her heart, and rebellion in the air, Kiva's fight for survival becomes a battle against impossible odds. Can she defy fate and secure freedom, or will the trials claim her life?
In reading order
The Prison Healer Series
3 books · Published 2021–2022
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Sale price
$1498
The Prison Healer
Chapter Book · Ages 12–+ · 2021
A healer risks everything in deadly trials to save a queen and herself from a brutal prison.
The Gilded Cage
Chapter Book · 2021
Escaped prison, now trapped in palace intrigue. Can she trust anyone?
The Blood Traitor
Chapter Book · 2022
A quest for redemption amidst looming war tests loyalties and courage.
Good to know
Common Questions
How many books are in the Prison Healer series?
There are 3 books in the Prison Healer series. It began with The Prison Healer in 2021, and the newest book, The Blood Traitor, was published in 2022.
What order should you read the Prison Healer books in?
Start with The Prison Healer and follow the series order — the books above are numbered #1 through #3.
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