Now more than ever, there's a need for a strong queen. The people of the Fells are starving and close to rebellion. After a long period of quiet, the power of the Wizard Council is once again growing. Wars are raging to the south, and threaten to spread into the high country. Now court life in Fellsmarch pinches like a pair of too-small shoes. Meanwhile, Princess Raisa ana'Marianna, the heir to the Gray Wolf throne of the Fells, has just spent three years of relative freedom with her father's family at Demonai Camp - riding, hunting, and working the famous Clan markets. And the Bayars will stop at nothing to get it back. Only later does he learn that it has an evil history - it once belonged to the Demon King, the wizard who nearly destroyed the world a millennium ago. Han takes an amulet from one of the wizards, Micah Bayar, to prevent him from using it against them. When 16-year-old Han Alister and his Clan friend Dancer encounter three underage wizards setting fire to the sacred mountain of Hanalea, he has no idea that this event will precipitate a cascade of disasters that will threaten everything he cares about. Adventure, magic, war and ambition conspire to throw together an unlikely group of companions in a struggle to save their world. The first book in an epic fantasy series from debut author Cinda Williams Chima.
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