Ninety-Seven Provinces: Book I: Ari Anaustasha and the Band of Thieves

Ari Anaustasha, a scatterbrained fourteen-year-old girl with ties to an ancient assassin clan, lives in Azurma: a war-torn country of ninety-seven provinces that never seem to get along. Follow Ari and her thieving companions as they cause chaos, solve crimes, and occasionally work in a bakery.

Their ultimate goal: to cross the content to get to the Castle of Lilies and assassinate the King of Azurma ("For the gold!" they say.) However, a smelly evil much stronger than chaos threatens to get to him first...