A New York Times BestsellerAlianne - known as Aly - has a good life. Her father is second in command of Tortalls spies. Her mother is the most famous knight in the country. Aly spends her time helping her father decode messages and, to her mothers dismay, dyeing her hair blue. But everything changes when, on a solo boat ride, Aly is captured by pirates and ends up a slave to the Balitangs, a noble family on the Copper Isles. ALONE IN A foreign land, Aly will need both her fathers wit and her mothers courage to navigate a royal court rife with political intrigue and murderous conspiracy. 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, delighting in the art of spying.
