The book ended inconclusively concerning the war. There was no winner in this book. Shay suspected her father had been saving it for the second book. She hoped that was also a good thing and that it meant that they could still influence the outcome of events.

Shay also realized that whatever her father had written as a second book would never be finished if he had not finished it. Whether that was a good thing or a bad thing, she did not know. She hoped it was a good thing. She recalled that her father had said he had written her into another book. He must have been working...