from the back cover: What happens when a seal pup is lost?
Growing up at Madam Opera's Estimable Marine Society for Foundling Boys and Girls, Rossamund Bookchild - a boy with an unfortunate name - has led a life sheltered from the dangers of the world. But this all changes the day the man with the strange red-and-pale-blue eyes recruits him into the service of the Emperor. Rossamund has been drafted into the ranks of the Half Continent's "Lamplighters…
Long ago and far away.. There was a castle. But not just any castle. This was the grand and glittering Castle Corona. And in this castle lived a family. But not just any family. This was the family of King Guido: rich and royal and.. spoiled. And King Guido was so spoiled that no finery could please him, for what he longed for most was.. a nap and a gown that didn't itch. Far below this grand…