She wore the green dress. It was a small defiance - the kind only a daughter can make against her mother. Glinda didn't know it would cost her everything. She didn't know that one stubborn moment would shatter her family, hand Oz to the wicked witches, and leave her alone in a world suddenly coming apart at the seams. She wasn't trying to start a war. She was just refusing to be told what to wear. Now her mother is gone. Her father has sent her away for her own safety. A king she appealed to for help laughed her out of his court. Magical armies are carving the land apart, and somewhere in the back of Glinda's mind is the knowledge she can't quite outrun - that all of it, every bit of it, began with her. She has three spells. A few clever allies. And a young dreamer who fell out of the sky with stories of freedom and dreams powerful enough to reshape the world around him. It isn't much. But Glinda has never needed permission to act - and she isn't about to start asking for it now. The world will know her name, no matter what the cost. The Orphan Sorceress of Oz is the first book in the Hidden History of Oz - an epic fantasy series set decades before Dorothy, for readers of all ages who have ever wondered how Oz became the world Baum described.