The oathbreaker's shadow
By: Amy McCulloch
Contributors: McCulloch, Sophie, illustrator
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9780385678247; 9780385678261
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Promises; Juvenile fiction; Magic
Description: Fifteen-year-old Raim lives in a world where you tie a knot for every promise that you make. Break that promise and you are scarred for life, and cast out into the desert. Raim has worn a simple knot around his wrist for as long as he can remember. No one knows where it came from, and which promise of his it symbolises, but he barely thinks about it at all - not since becoming the most promising young fighter ever to train for the elite Yun guard. But on the most important day of his life, when he binds his life to his best friend (and future king) Khareh, the string bursts into flames and sears a dark mark into his skin. Scarred now as an oath-breaker, Raim has two options: run, or be killed.
Notes: Illustration by Sophie McCulloch--Title page verso.

Issued also in electronic format.