Tamora Pierce brings readers another Tortall adventure! Alianne is the teenage daughter of the famed Alanna, the first lady knight in Tortall. Young Aly follows in the quieter footsteps of her father; however, she delights in the art of spying. When she is captured and sold as a slave to an exiled royal family in the faraway Copper Islands, the skill proves crucial in a world filled with political intrigue, murderous conspiracy, and warring gods.