Trickster’s Choice

PIERCE, Tamora.Trickster’s Choice. NY: Random House [2003]. 8vo, [viii] 423pp. Brown boards decoratively stamped in bronze. Two-page illustrated map. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket. Signed by the author, Tamora Pierce!

First edition. Alianne is the teenage daughter of the famed Alanna, the first lady knight in Tortall. Young Aly follows in the quieter footsteps of her father, however, delighting in the art of spying. When she is captured and sold as a slave to an exiled royal family in the faraway Copper Islands, it is this skill that makes a difference in a world filled with political intrigue, murderous conspiracy, and warring gods.