Preview of Aria of the Sea Summary:

Aria of the Sea opens with intense emotions. Cerinthe Gale of Normost is frantic to reach the Trial for the School of Royal Dancers and fears their ship arrived too late at Faranor, the capitol island-city of the realm of Windward. At the age of thirteen, if she misses this Trial, she will never have another chance; the following year, she would be too old for consideration. Clutching her letter of recommendation from her dance teacher back in Normost in the far Northern Reaches, Cerinthe and her father Gaebron approach the doors to the school where anticipation and worry change to embarrassment when the doorman looks down his nose at them and tells them servants should knock only at the rear door.

Cerinthe knows her family is common.

Her father is a fisherman with simple tastes and dreams. She was training to be a folk healer, but her...