This book is the winner of numerous awards. It was recognised in the Peter Mcnamara Convenors' Award for Excellence category by the Aurealis Award. It was recognised in the Older Readers category by the Young Australians' Best Book Award. It also was recognised in the Younger Readers category by the West Australian Young Readers' Book Award.

This is volume 2 in Deltora Quest .

This book was published 2014 by Bolinda Publishing .

Emily Rodda is the author of the hugely successful Deltora Quest series, with over two million copies in print. Winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year (Younger Readers) Award a record five times, she seems to know instinctively what children want to read. She currently lives in Sydney, Australia.