This book was recognised in the Peter Mcnamara Convenors' Award for Excellence category by the Aurealis Award.

This is volume 7 in Deltora Quest .

This book was published 2014 by Bolinda Publishing .

Emily Rodda is the author of the hugely successful Deltora Quest series, with over two million copies in print. Winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year (Younger Readers) Award a record five times, she seems to know instinctively what children want to read. She currently lives in Sydney, Australia.