Razo--short, funny and not a great soldier--is sure it's out
of pity that his captain asks him to join an elite
mission--escorting the ambassador into Tira, Bayern's great
enemy.
But when the Bayern arrive in the strange southern country,
it’s Razo who discovers the first dead body. He’s the only
Bayern able to befriend both the high and low born, people
who can provide information about the ever-increasing
murders. And he’s the one who must embrace his own talents
in order to get the Bayern soldiers home again, alive.
Newbery–Honor winner Shannon Hale returns the reader to the
intrigue and magic of Bayern, introduced in her critically
acclaimed novels, The Goose Girl and Enna Burning. In River
Secrets, readers revisit a world where even those with no
special magical skills find in themselves something they
never imagined.