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Published by Random House Children’s Publishers
SYNOPSIS: Fifteen-year-old Raim lives in a world where you tie a knot for every promise that you make. Break that promise and you are scarred for life, and cast out into the desert. Raim has worn a simple knot around his wrist for as long as he can remember. No one knows where it came from, and which promise of his it symbolises, but he barely thinks about it at all—not since becoming the most promising young fighter ever to train for the elite Yun guard. But on the most important day of his life, when he binds his life to his best friend (and future king) Khareh, the string bursts into flames and sears a dark mark into his skin.
Scarred now as an oath-breaker, Raim has two options: run, or be killed.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Amy McCulloch was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, UK, and moved to Ottawa, Canada, when she was 11. She developed a love of geeky things like science fairs, yearbook, RPGs and The Lord of the Rings. She has with a B.A. in English, specializing in Old English and Medieval literature (her love for Geoffrey Chaucer will never die). After a year backpacking around Africa, Australia, New Zealand and South-East Asia, she moved back to London to find a job in publishing. She now works as commissioning editor for HarperVoyager, where she works on such amazing authors as George R.R. Martin, Robin Hobb and Raymond Feist. |
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