

“Ten times the better I’ll know them, then.” I said. “Master Graves was incensed and said, as punishment for my disruption, I would have to write my letters an extra ten times that day.

Some of readers’ favorite quotes for this series are listed below. And if you’ve only read this first book, please go on to the second book, THE RUNAWAY KING, or the third, THE SHADOW THRONE, though I promise you, I will only make things harder on Sage each time. If you haven’t read this book, please do.

However, it turns out that Sage may have a plan of his own… Sage wants no part of it, but he also understands that the boys who are not chosen will be killed, so that no one else will ever discover this plan. One of these boys will go on to impersonate the missing prince of the kingdom, now heir to the throne. And Latamer, with a good heart, but a sick body. Three other boys have been taken as well: Roden, who is strong and ambitious. But when he is taken away by a regent to the king, Bevin Conner, he begins to understand that he has just become part of a dangerous and treasonous plot. Sage is a thief and an orphan and is doing just fine on his own.
