Book #3

The Crescent Empire teeters on the edge of a revolution, and
the Five Daughters of the Moon are the ones to determine its
future.Alina, six, fears Gagargi Prataslav and his Great Thinking
Machine. The gagargi claims that the machine can predict the future,
but at a cost that no one seems to want to know. Merile, eleven, cares
only for her dogs, but she smells that something is afoul with the
gagargi. By chance, she learns that the machine devours human souls
for fuel, and yet no one believes her claim. Sibilia, fifteen, has fallen in
love for the first time in her life. She couldn't care less about the
unrests spreading through the countryside. Or the rumors about the
gagargi and his machine. Elise, sixteen, follows the captain of her heart
to orphanages and workhouses. But soon she realizes that the
unhappiness amongst her people runs much deeper that anyone could
have ever predicted. And Celestia, twenty-two, who will be the empress
one day. Lately, she's been drawn to the gagargi. But which one of
them was the first to mention the idea of a coup?