Publisher's Synopsis
From the author of Strike the Waters, a tale of harrowing loss, unlikely survival, and a long journey into the unknown.
All her life Canowic has known she does not belong. Abandoned at birth and raised by a powerful shaman who teaches her to read the seeing stones of antiquity, she longs to uncover the secret of her origins. She gets her chance after a corrupt king's death plunges the great city of Aghuax into chaos, though enlightenment proves more costly than she could have ever imagined.
