(Hardback)

Even after escaping from the Southerly Kingdom, Lottie Fiske has returned to the magical Albion Isle, despite the fact that she is a wanted criminal there, because she is seeking answers about her abilities, and her parents--but war is threatening Limn, and the answers she needs seem to lie in the Northerly Kingdom, along a road full of dangers.

(Hardback)

Strange things are happening on the island Lottie calls home and her bestfriend Eliot is getting sicker, with a disease the doctors have given up trying to cure. Lottie is helpless, useless, powerlessuntil a door opens in the apple tree that grows in the heart of Thirsby Square...