Return to the world of the bestselling Greenglass House, where smugglers, magic, and pyrotechnics mix, in a newadventure from aNew York Timesbest-selling, National Book Awardnominated, and Edgar Awardwinning author.Lucy Bluecrowne is beginning a new life ashore with her stepmother and half brother, though she's certain the only place she'll ever belong is with her father on a ship of war as part of the crew. She doesn't care that living in a house is safer and the proper place for a twelve-year-old girl; it's boring. But then two nefarious strangers identify her little brother as the pyrotechnical prodigy they need to enact an evil plan, and it will take all Lucy's fighting instincts to keep her family together. Set in the magicalGreenglass House world, this action-packed tale of the houses first inhabitants reveals the origins of some of its many secrets.