<b>From the front flap of the Atheneum first edition:</b> "After Ulfra, the wolf-girl, joins Tansy, the former leopard-woman, at her dressmaker's shop at the Cat's Face, business picks up. An elvenish examination suit leads to a rage for wingcases and the coveted commission to make the prince of Twinmoon's wedding clothes.
<p>Caitlin, the former seer, and Badger, no known as Matthew Binder, with their changeling child, Grimald, settle in the Weirdwood, where Binder mends books and Caitlin sells dried herbs and struggles to translate scraps of runes that might be part of the lost books of magic, the Books of the Keepers.
<p>Bram, Binder and Caitlin's kidnapped baby - was raised in the world Below to be Ylfewen's, the elf queen's , consort. He escapes with the Goblin Pretender and is returned to his parents.
<p>Fell and Iona form an unusual alliance under the watchful eye of Lucivia, the matchmaker, who is also more than a friend to the young prince.
<p>These memorable and very real characters from Above, Below, and elsewhere, with stories of their own, become part of the larger plan for delving into the secrets of the past ages to reveal the hiding places of the Books of the Keepers."
