Despite her troublesome attraction to magick, Flora has more or less spent her life doing whats been expected of her. Now, at sixteen, she knows that this path has been strewn with secrets. Sure that her true mother, Tiny Doomlong believed to be deadis alive, Flora becomes determined to find her and leave behind the lies shes been told about who she is. Floras quest takes her on a journey from lawless islands to the deadly desert, and into an unexpected romance with a brooding stranger who reveals himself to be a kindred spirit. And it all becomes far more dangerous when Flora realizes how desperately their enemies want Tiny Doomand Flora herselfdead.

 

This is volume 3 in Flora Segunda .

This book has been graded for interest at 12+ years.

There are 517 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by Houghton Mifflin .

Ysabeau S. Wilce is the author of Flora Segunda, Flora's Dare, and Flora's Fury, and she has also published work in Asimov's Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. She has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the Tiptree Award, and Flora's Dare won the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy. Trained as a military historian, she claims to have turned to fiction when the truth no longer compared favorably to the shining lies of her imagination. She lives in San Francisco with her family. Visit her website at www. yswilce. com.