Starmaker Stella

This sixth and final volume of the Dica series joins Stella, daughter of Falmeard and Geran, as an acolyth starmaker; creating new stars, and thereby order in the greater world, from the top of the Star Tower. But Stella has grown up harbouring a secret: a view of the world seen from beyond Castle Dica's walls, a view that everyone else refuses to see. When she resolves to find out why, there begins another enthralling, and this time concluding, episode in this much loved created-world's turbulent history.

Stella, though, could never have envisaged what she was about to uncover; about herself, her own Sodbuster family, and the true nature of Leiyatel: the realm's ancient protector. Nor could she have anticipated the mortal threat to her life that then unfolds before her. Nor the finding of rare love in the most unexpected of places.

But what ultimately drives her on is her passion to deliver freedom to the realm's inhabitants, even at the cost of her own freedom - and as it brings her life to hang by a thinner and thinner thread. And what of Nature and her ineluctable drive towards chaos? Can Stella balance all these conflicting demands in her challenge to the realm's established order, when she's only one young woman set against the might of the Certain Power of Dica?