By Shannon Hale
If you're looking for a book that has adventure, a wee bit of romance, and a few scary parts, this is the book for you.
It's about a mucker girl named Dashti who is Lady Saren(she is kind of the like the princess)'s maid. Lady Saren is sentenced to live in a tower for seven years, because she has refused to marry Lord Khasar, and wants to marry Khan Tegus. No one will go to live in the tower with Lady Saren, but Dasthti. What will happen to them when the rats eat most of their food, the guards who protect the tower are killed, no one lives around for miles, and to top it off, they're locked in a tower and can't get out. Oh, did I mention that all this horrible stuff happened only during the 3rd year? How will they survive? Read the book to find out!