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Tamora Pierce brings readers another Tortall adventure! 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... read more

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Cast of Characters

  • Alianne Cooper of Pirate's Swoop: 16-year-old daughter of Alanna the Lioness and George Cooper, baron of Pirate's Swoop. Nicknamed "Aly". Enjoys flirting and fooling around with boys and wants to follow her father's footsteps in spy work. Our story's main character.
  • George Cooper, baron of Pirate's Swoop: Alanna's husband and Aly's father, baron and second-in-command of his realm's spies.
  • Nawat Crow: A crow who turned himself into a man. He is close to and protective of Aly and believes she will one day be his mate.
  • Kyprioth: Trickster god.
  • Saraiyu: Nicknamed "Sarai". Mequen's oldest daughter, half-raka, from his first marriage. Is believed to be the woman of prophecy to return the Copper Isles' throne to the raka.
  • Dovasary: Nicknamed "Dove." Sarai's younger sister, Mequen's second daughter, half-raka, from his first marriage.

First Sentence

George Cooper, Baron of Pirate's Swoop, second in command of his realm's spies, put his documents aside and surveyed his only daughter as she paused by his study door.

Table of Contents

Excerpt from The Luarin Conquest
1. Parents
2. Trickster
3. The Raka
4. The Road
5. Settling In
6. Of Goats and Crows
7. Conversations
8. A Spy's Work
9. Learning the Ground
10. Assassins
11. Migrations
12. The Mage of Pohon
13. Ladies of the Raka
14. Pivot
15. Winged Messenger
16. Betrayal

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Series

This is book 1 in the Daughter of the Lioness series.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Tamora Pierce (Author)
 

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