Several centuries before its people meet Humanity, the world Vhar is dominated by the decadent Vhrelul Empire, with its powerful priestesses and rigid caste system. But change is coming: the revolutionaries' cause is fuelled by the tragic deaths of two very different young women, and above all by the forbidden love between an aristocrat and a common soldier. Set on imagined world, which forms part of the larger Poynter universe, this novel tells the stories of five women, whose interlinked lives lie at the heart of dramatic events and shape the whole future of their planet.
Several centuries before its people meet Humanity, the world Vhar is dominated by the decadent Vhrelul Empire, with its powerful priestesses and rigid caste system. But change is coming: the revolutionaries' cause is fuelled by the tragic deaths of two very different young women, and above all by the forbidden love between an aristocrat and a common soldier. Set on imagined world, which forms part of the larger Poynter universe, this novel tells the stories of five women, whose interlinked lives lie at the heart of dramatic events and shape the whole future of their planet.