Holly Black posted a small snippet on Twitter from her upcoming book Black Heart.

Black Heart is the third and final book in the Curse Workers series and releases on April 3rd.

Excerpt from Chapter 1:

Outside of school, Lila doesn’t bother wearing a scarf. I can see the grim necklace of marks on her throat, scars dark where ash was rubbed into them. That’s part of the ceremony when you join her father’s crime family, slicing your skin and swearing that you’re dead to your old life and reborn into wickedness. Not even Zacharov’s daughter is spared it.
She’s one of them now. No turning back.
“Well now,” says Barron, gleeful. “I bet you’re thinking we just observed the end of a very naughty transaction. But let’s consider the possibility that actually we caught her doing something totally innocent yet embarrassing.”
I look at him absently. “Embarrassing?”
“Like meeting up to play one of those card games where you have to collect everything. Pokemon. Magic the Gathering. Maybe they’re training for a tournament. With all that cash, I’m guessing he won.”
“Funny.”
“Maybe he’s tutoring her in Latin. Or they were painting miniatures together. Or he’s teaching her shadow puppetry.” He makes a duck-like gesture with one gloved hand.
I punch Barron’s shoulder, but not really hard. Just hard enough to make him shut up. He laughs and adjusts his sunglasses, pushing the them higher on his nose.
The boy with the braids crosses the street, head down, hood pulled up to shadow his face. Lila walks to the corner and raises her hand to hail a cab. The wind whips at her hair, making it a nimbus of blown gold.
I wonder if she’s done her homework for Monday.
I wonder if she could ever love me again.
I wonder just how mad she’d really be if she knew I was here, watching her. Probably really, really mad.

Have you read the Curse Workers series? What do you think of the Black Heart excerpt?