Briceland, V

Sixteen-year-old Risa's disappointment over an unprecedented event is devastating, but the evil and destruction that follows the king's death show her that the god and goddess have special need of her talents and those of her new, lower-class friends.

On his first sea voyage, seventeen-year-old Nic Dattore faces vicious pirates then, with a motley crew of castaways, decides to commandeer the pirate ship to return home, racing against time to save the magical city of Cassaforte from a diabolical plot.

Petro Divetri, younger brother to a famed sorceress, tries to avoid unwanted attention by switching identities with his best friend while in far-off Nascenza for the Midsummer rituals, but when Adrio is kidnapped Petro must rescue his friend and defeat a political plot that threatens to wipe out all of Cassaforte.

Sixteen-year-old Risa's disappointment over an unprecedented event is devastating, but the evil and destruction that follows the king's death show her that the god and goddess have special need of her talents and those of her new, lower-class friends.