HarperTrophy, Toronto, 2009, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 978-1-55468-292-8.  MMPB, 210 pages.  Good plus; very light edge and cover wear, light reading creases on spine, tight binding.  Moisture rippling to fore-edge of a few pages; pages lightly tanned.  ‘It has been three years since the friends last met. … [Dahl] is now, rightfully and proudly, the King of Taun, a confident and sure ruler who has brought peace and prosperity to his realm.  But Catryn, too, has grown and changed in the last years. … she is now Seer of Taun, a shapeshifter whose alternate bodies are cats, and possessed of extraordinary powers of magic.  She is also the bearer of devastating news: the peace Dahl fought so hard to win is crumbling, stealthily unraveled by a dark force once thought vanquished.  Are Catryn and Dahl strong enough, even together, to conquer the evil again?’ (from rear wrap)