In her New York Times bestselling and Morris Award-winning debut, Rachel Hartman introduces mathematical dragons in an alternative-medieval world to fantasy and science-fiction readers of all ages.
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..
Seraphina is drawn into the investigation, partnering with the captain of the Queen\'s Guard, the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs.
An unusually gifted musician, she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murdered—in suspiciously draconian fashion.
Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides.
As the treaty\'s anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high.
Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers.
Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd.
In her New York Times bestselling and Morris Award-winning debut, Rachel Hartman introduces mathematical dragons in an alternative-medieval world to fantasy and science-fiction readers of all ages
