Pirouette Leiter, the Puppetmasterâs Apprentice, is given the most important and dangerous job of her life: to build a wooden assassin for the tyrant of Tavia.
The Margrave of Tavia hasnât emerged from Wolfspire Hall in over a decade. His palace has been a silent citadel on the hill overlooking the village, until a peculiar commission reaches the
puppetmaster and his daughterâthey must make one hundred wooden soldiers for him as quickly as possible, or the puppetmaster will be imprisoned in the dungeons of Wolfspire Keep.
Pirouette has no choice but to obey the young rulerâs strange whims to save her father, all while hiding a dangerous secret of her ownâshe was once a puppet, brought to life by the light of the blue
moon. When the Margrave requires that Pirouette craft him a puppet the likes of which the world has never seenâan intricately carved, life-sized assassinâhe doesnât stop there. He demands she
bring her ultimate creation to life.
Fighting against dark magic and racing against the rise of the next blue moon, she canât help but wonder, is she making a masterpiece ⊠or a monster?