*In this gripping fantasy adventure, a trickster Fox god challenges a quick-witted acolyte to rally her ancestors with cunning subterfuge...and outright rebellion. **"Fox-fleet and brazen, merry and mischievous." *

*In this gripping fantasy adventure, a trickster Fox god challenges a quick-witted acolyte to rally her ancestors with cunning subterfuge...and outright rebellion. **"Fox-fleet and brazen, merry and mischievous." *

--**C. S. E. Cooney, author of Saint Death's Daughter Nesi is desperate to earn the patronage of one of the Ninety-Nine Pillars of Heaven. As a child with godly blood in her, if she cannot earn a divine chaperone, she will never be allowed to leave her temple home. But with ninety-six failed auditions and few options left, Nesi makes a risky prayer to T'sidaan, the Fox of Tricks. In folk tales, the Fox is a loveable prankster. But despite their humor and charm, T'sidaan, and their audition, is no joke. They throw Nesi back in time three hundred years, when her homeland is occupied by the brutal Wolfhounds of Zemin. Now, Nesi must ally with her besieged people and learn a trickster's guile to snatch a fortress from the disgraced and exiled 100th Pillar: The Wolf of the Hunt.