The Queen's Rising (Broché)

Brienna Colbert knows what it's like to be an outsider. Cast aside from her family in the northern kingdom of Maevana, she's been raised in the south. 'While some are born with a talent for one of the five passions — art, music, dramatics, wit and knowledge — Brienna struggles to discover hers until she chooses knowledge, and with it comes a very unusual skill. When a dangerous plot against the northern kingdom comes to light, Brienna's passion proves invaluable to a rebellion she never even knew existed.
Will she choose loyalty to her present or her past ? For a queen is destined to rise and reclaim the northern throne, and Brienna might just be the one who holds the key to it all ...