First thing that jumps out when looking at this, the fourth in the HeartQuest series, is just how familiar the main character on the cover looks, from the face and hair to the design of the armor, this looks exactly like Laurana Kanan from the Dragonlance novels and modules. This is only natural, after all the modules and the novel Dragons of Autumn Twilight a year away in 1984. So Larry Elmore was for sure deep into the character design process for the Dragonlance characters. 

Written by Morris Simon, under the lady pseudonym of Madeleine Simon, to appeal to the young woman target audience of this gamebook, the story tells of a princess, Licia, determined to regain her kingdom and rescue her brother who has been kidnapped by the evil wizard Terg. On the way to completing her mission she will find two potential love interests, the brilliant and nice (but weirdly possessive) Max and the rude and uncouth thief Tym. 

As the story goes on Licia gets the chance to romance one or both of these characters and there are some good lessons for young ladies here, such as: nice guys who are extremely controlling and possessive are really not nice and jealousy isn’t a sign of love. The story is a bit too linear, and it doesn’t make you go back and forth that much in the book, you basically keep going forward all the time until the end, which is a bit unimaginative and defeats the purpose of the book, but as a story it’s still fun.