Rani Trader has been through a lot. After being implicated in the murder of the beloved Prince Tuvashanoran, her guild was destroyed and she was forced to run, traveling through the castes, changing name, until she was finally found innocent by the boy prince: Halaravilli. The Society of the Serpent was destroyed, but Rani was left with nothing. Her family was dead her guildsmen were scattered. Two years passed, and King Halaravilli promised her that he would help her reform her beloved guild. But then she and her king fall victim to a ruthless betrayal, and Rani is spirited off to a foreign land. There she is faced with the horror of a kingdom destroyed by civil war. A kingdom reduced to employing armies of children...
I think the book is really good. although you might want to read the Glasswright's Apprentice first. I tried looking up some sites on the books, but I only got 33 hits on MSN. The people who wrote the reviews do not seem to like it. It's sort of Hhinduism'ish with casts and junk, but that just makes it more interesting.