WINNER OF THE 2023 MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD FOR MIDDLE GRADE LITERATURE "Entertaining, fast-paced and thoughtful."
--The New York Times Book Review In this thrilling fantasy novel from an award-winning author, a prince and a mage must untangle the riddles from their shared past to save the future of the empire--or risk seeing everything they both love destroyed. Tick . . . tick . . . tick . . ....