Wanted for a crime she didnโt mean to commit, she risks capture to protect every Taker she can find, determined to prevent the Duke of Baseer from using them in his fiendish experiments. But resolve isnโt enough to protect any of them, and Nya soon realizes the only way to keep them all out of the Dukeโs clutches is to flee Geveg. Unfortunately, the Dukeโs best tracker has other ideas.
Nya finds herself trapped in the last place she ever wanted to be, forced to trust the last people she ever thought she could. More is at stake than just the people of Geveg, and the closer she gets to uncovering the Dukeโs plan, the more she discovers how critical she is to his victory.
To save Geveg, she just might have to save Baseerโif she doesnโt destroy it first.
Janice Hardy is also the author of The Shifter and Blue Fire, the first two books in the Healing Wars trilogy. She lives in Georgia with her husband, four cats, and one nervous freshwater eel.