|summary=The people of Logra have kidnapped the High Prince of Chaldea and thrown a magical barrier around its island shores. Aileen's aunt Beck, the powerful Wise Woman of Skarr, is sent to rescue him, along with a motley crowd including an extremely greedy (and occasionally invisible) cat, but is she the one who will save the day – or is it the apparently useless Aileen?
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Imagine a story – a good old-fashioned adventure with journeys and magic and villains and young people finding their strengths despite the odds, and coming at last to the place they belong. Then imagine another story, a heart-touching one this time, about the writing of that story, and you have the whole of this charming book.