Book excerpt: In the north of Redbree, in a peasant-infested kingdom, Eliza, a young, unpredictable girl, quickly infuriated lives. She visualizes the day she can escape the firm grasp of her loathsome parents, wondering what it would feel like to run through the free lands hand in hand with her brothers. Her dream comes true, when she hears the weak voice of a prince she knows to be long dead.