Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of INKHEA
RT, the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater br
ought into being from words, the need to return to the tale has become desperate
. When he finds a crooked storyteller with the ability to read him back, Dustfin
ger leaves behind his young apprentice Farid and plunges into the medieval world
of his past. Distraught, Farid goes in search of Meggie, and before long, both
are caught inside the book, too. But the story is threatening to evolve in ways
neither of them could ever have imagined.
