Daja's Book (Circle of Magic, No.3)

Part of the 8-book Tamora Pierce reissue for Fall 2006 this title in the Circle of Magic quartet features spellbinding new cover art. Coincides with the release of WILL OF THE EMPRESS in trade pb. Four elements of power four mages-in-training learning to control them. In Book 3 of the Circle of Magic Quartet outcast Trader Daja and her friends journey from Winding Circle to the Gold Ridge Mountains where drought threatens widespread famine. There Daja creates an astonishing object: a living metal vine. A caravan of Traders covets the vine and Dajas dealing with her former people reawaken a longing for familiar ways. Now Daja must choose--should she return to the Traders or remain with the Winding Circle folk who have become her family?