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Random House Books for Young Readers
July 2012
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Featuring: Seraphina Dombegh
465 pages
ISBN: 0375866566
EAN: 9780375866562
Kindle: B005IQZC2M
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Young Adult Adventure
In her New York Times bestselling debut, Rachel
Hartman introduces mathematical dragons in an
alternative-medieval world to fantasy and science-fiction
readers of all ages. Eragon-author Christopher
Paolini calls them, "Some of the most interesting dragons
I've read in fantasy."
Four decades of peace have
done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons
in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human
shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their
rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and
teachers. As the treaty's anniversary draws near, however,
tensions are high.
Seraphina Dombegh has reason to
fear both sides. An unusually gifted musician, she joins the
court just as a member of the royal family is murdered—in
suspiciously draconian fashion. Seraphina is drawn into the
investigation, partnering with the captain of the Queen's
Guard, the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs. While
they begin to uncover hints of a sinister plot to destroy
the peace, Seraphina struggles to protect her own secret,
the secret behind her musical gift, one so terrible that its
discovery could mean her very life.
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