Jean R. reviewed on 9/9/2008

High in the Slopes of Mount Eskel, Miri's family has lived forever, ponding a meager living from the stone of the mountin itself. Miri dreams of working alongside the others in the quarry, but she has never been allowed to work there - perhaps, she thinks, because she is so small.
Then word comes from the lowlands: the king's preist's have divined that the prince's bride-to-be---the next princess---will come from Mount Eskel. The prince himself will travel to the village to choose his bride, but first all eligable girls must attened a makeshift acadamy to prepare for the royal lowlander life.
At the school, Miri finds herself confronting both bitter competion among the girls and her own conflicted disires to be chosen. Yet, when danger comes tp the acadmy, it is Miri, named for tiny mountin flower, who must find a way to save her classmates---and the chance for the future that each of them is eager to secure as her own.

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