“Melanie Dickerson does it again! Full of danger, intrigue, and romance, this beautifully crafted story will transport you to another place and time.”
—Sarah E. Ladd, author of The Curiosity Keeper and the Whispers on the Moors series, on The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest
Also by Melanie Dickerson
Young Adult Fairy Tale Romance Series
The Healer’s Apprentice
The Merchant’s Daughter
The Fairest Beauty
The Captive Maiden
The Princess Spy
The Golden Braid
The Silent Songbird
The Orphan’s Wish
The Warrior Maiden
A Medieval Fairy Tale Series
The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest
The Beautiful Pretender
The Noble Servant
Regency Spies of London Series
A Spy’s Devotion
A Viscount’s Proposal
A Dangerous Engagement
Copyright
The Piper’s Pursuit
All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson. Thomas Nelson is a registered trademark of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, Inc.
Thomas Nelson titles may be purchased in bulk for educational, business, fund-raising, or sales promotional use. For information, please email SpecialMarkets@ThomasNelson.com.
Publisher’s Note: This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. All characters are fictional, and any similarity to people living or dead is purely coincidental.
ISBN 978-0-7852-2814-1 (HC)
ISBN 978-0-7852-2832-5 (audio download)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Dickerson, Melanie, author.
Title: The piper's pursuit / Melanie Dickerson.
Description: Nashville, Tennessee : Thomas Nelson, [2019] | Audience: Ages 13+. | Audience: Grades 10-12. | Summary: In 1424 Hamlin, Katerina reluctantly allies with the handsome but brash Steffan to protect herself and her city from formidable dangers--missing children, hordes of rats, a marauding beast, and her devious stepfather, the town's mayor.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019030162 (print) | LCCN 2019030163 (ebook) | ISBN 9780785228141 (hardback) | ISBN 9780785228059 (e-book) | ISBN 9780785228325 (audio download)
Subjects: CYAC: Missing children--Fiction. | Family life--Fiction. | Christian life--Fiction. | Middle Ages--Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.D5575 Pi 2019 (print) | LCC PZ7.D5575 (ebook) | DDC [Fic]--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019030162
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019030163
Printed in the United States of America
19 20 21 22 23 LSC 5 4 3 2 1