<b>To save her people, she must steal the face of a god. </b><br> <br> For two hundred years, Jala's people have survived by raiding the mainland. By shaping the reefs around the Five-and-One Islands into magical ships, they can cross the ocean, take what they want, and disappear.<br> <br> Or so they have always believed. On the night after Jala becomes queen, a tide of magical fog sweeps over the islands, carrying ships form the mainland. Inside are a desperate people, driven half-mad by sorcery and looking for revenge.<br> <br> Now Jala - caught between her family's unending ambitions, the politics of the islands thrown into turmoil, and her unexpected love for the king - must find a way to save them all if she can.<br> <br> But there are greater powers at work, and the politics of gods are more terrifying than she could have imagined. To save the Five-and-One Islands she may have to leave them behind. <br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>
