Who better to entrust with a vile weapon than someone who abhors the very thought of violence?
Deenah's quiet life as an apprentice healer in the small village of Brae's Creek has come to an end. She can never go back. After fleeing through the wilds for days, she finds herself on the outskirts of Tablat, a frontier town full of thieves, murderers, and halfbreeds. Exhausted and hungry, she has no choice but to enter.
However, she is not alone. And that thought terrifies her more than if she had stumbled upon an entire field of slaughtered Vagrian blood ponies.