<p>Welcome to the Zaragarian Empire.</p><p> </p><p> Rada's newborn sister is disfigured and her father has decreed that her fate lies at the Seat of the Gods. Rada knows what that means - he wants her sister dead.</p><p> </p><p> To save both her sister and her mother Rada must find the Emperor and beseech him for help.</p><p> Rada is six. The Emperor terrifies her but there is no one else.</p><p> </p><p> In a world of intricate politics rivalries dissent and revolt; where old gods lay in wait the fate of two little girls will change the course of an empire.</p><p> </p><p> Everything depends on a six-year-old with a slingshot</p><p> </p><p> *Rada is set approx 16 years before Altaica.</p>