By: Ysabeau S. Wilce
Level: YA
Flora is sick of being treated like a slave while Mamma has an important job, Popop is crazy, and her fourteenth birthday is coming. Flora wants to be a Ranger but Mamma expects her to go into the military like all Fyrdraaca’s. Then, Flora gets mixed up with the banished butler, Valefor, and has to find a way to save herself as well as the butler and the Dainty Pirate, who is a famous Ranger. Flora has to decide where she lives in her world and how to transition into an adult.