"A first-rate fantasy novel" that blends military fantasy with courtly politics, vast worldbuilding, and a diverse cast of characters (Orson Scott Card, New York Times?bestselling author of Ender's Game)
The newly-edited, definitive edition of the first book in the acclaimed Inda series, set within Sherwood Smith's epic fantasy universe, Sartorias-deles!
Indevan-Dal is the second son of the Prince and Princess of Choraed Elgaer. Like all second sons, he is to be privately trained at home by Tanrid, the elder brother whose lands Inda and his future wife Tdor would one day protect.
When the King's Voice comes to summon Inda to the Military Academy, he might well feel foreboding, or even fear?war is imminent?yet ten-year-old Inda feels only excitement.
But there are things that Tanrid hasn't prepared him for, and Inda will soon learn that the greatest threats to his safety will not come from foreign enemies, but from supposed allies within his own country. And he will be called on to use skills he was scarcely aware of in an entirely new life.
