The release date for the English version of 'River Secrets' by
Shannon Hale is Sep 2006. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Razo doesn't know why he was picked to serve in the military.
He is always being wrestled to the ground by his siblings, and he hardly knows how to wield a sword. Razo believes that his captain's request for him to accompany the ambassador on an exclusive mission—escorting him into Tira, Bayern's formidable foe—is motivated by sympathy.
But Razo finds the first dead corpse when the Bayern arrive in the unknown land in the south. The only Bayern who can make friends with both high and low born—people who have knowledge about the homicide rate that is steadily rising—is him. And in order to bring the Bayern men home—alive—he is the one who has to accept his own abilities.