Falcon Heart - Falcon Chronicle, #1

When slavers seize stronghold first daughter Kyrin Cieri from the coast of Britannia, Kyrin finds a mystery, martial skill, and friendship closer than blood. A falcon pursues her through tiger-haunted dreams, love, and war in the Araby sands. With a strange dagger from her murdered mother's hand, an exiled warrior from the East, and a peasant girl, Kyrin faces the sword that took her mother. Caught in the caliph's court intrigue, she must outwit unforeseen treachery.
To save those she loves, Kyrin must overcome more than the blade. Justice against hate, dagger against sword. Falcon Heart is the first book in a medieval YA fantasy series of epic adventure, mystery, and martial art, with threads of Enemies to Friends, Coming of Age, Exotic Arabia, and God. A Family Friendly, Multicultural Experience. Editorial note: Exciting, engaging, rich. Adventure, intrigue, battles, all the elements of a good tale.
-Lynn Leissler, Teacher