When desperately unhappy Laura, who secretly performs self-mutilation, finds her talisman and transports to Fortezza, a parallel world that resembles the Italian Renaissance city-state of Lucca, she faces battles on the field and of the heart.

• ISBN: 9781599908427
• Author: Hoffman, Mary
• Published: 2012 , Bloomsbury
• Themes: Adventure, Mental Health, Space and time
• Descriptors: Europe, Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Italy
• No. of pages: 368