After a year at the palace, Miri and her friends are ready to return home to their beloved Mount Eskel. But when the king orders Miri to start her own princess academy in a faraway swamp for three royal cousins, she is utterly dismayed. She must go on this journey alone, away from everyone she loves and everything she knows.Miri's new students are not at all what she expected. Astrid, Felissa, and Sus are more interested in hunting, fishing, and wrestling than learning about etiquette and history, and they know next to nothing about their royal ancestry.As Miri spends more time with the girls, she starts to suspect that they are part of a long-buried secret, and that the key to solving it rests in her and the sisters' hands. With her new friends at her side, Miri must gather all her strength to solve the mystery--and finally make her way back home.Fans of Shannon Hale won't want to miss this gorgeously woven return to this best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning series.


在皇宮度過了一年的時光，蜜蕊和她的朋友準備回到他們在伊思卡山上心愛的家。但是國王卻要求蜜蕊在遙遠的濕地，設立自己的王妃學校，教導三名皇室貴族。蜜蕊十分沮喪，因為她必須獨自踏上這段旅程，遠離自己所愛的人和熟悉的環境。蜜蕊的新學生阿斯特麗德、費莉薩和蘇絲和她所期望的不同。比起學習禮節和歷史，她們更喜歡打獵、釣魚和摔角，而她們也對自己的皇家祖先幾乎一無所知。隨著蜜蕊和這些女孩相處越久，她開始懷疑，她們屬於一段埋藏已久的秘密，而解開這個謎團的關鍵，就在蜜蕊和這些女孩的手中。有了新朋友的幫助，蜜蕊一定能凝聚所有的力量，揭開這個謎團，最終返回家鄉。此系列暢銷叢書榮獲紐伯瑞兒童文學獎，而這次作者又再次交織出絢麗的故事，珊寧‧海爾的書迷，千萬別錯過！