On Fortune's Wheel

On Fortune's Wheel by Voigt, Cynthia. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780449703915.

"JACKAROOs many fans will willingly...follow the intrepid Birle as Fortunes wheel swings...from drudgery to adventure, from iron servitude to luxury, and then finally to independence." BOOKLIST Fourteen-year-old Birl, an Innkeepers Daughter, cant imagine herself married to Muir, a hunter who lives in her village. Then, one extraordinary day, she finds a thief untying one of the Inns boats. She tries to stop him, but by the next morning, she realizes he was Orien, a handsome young Lord, who was leaving his Kingdom behind. She vows to follow him wherever he goes. And together they take a perilous journey to the uncharted South--a sinister place where warriors rule and captives become slaves for life....