Bound by an oath made before she was born, Kij, a daughter of the forest, must travel into the heart of the desert to determine the fate of a man she’s never met. On a journey where old enemies and new traditions prove equally dangerous, she quickly learns that justice is sometimes as hard to come by for the judge as it is for the accused and that, in the Sea of Sand, there is no such thing as mercy.
Marsheila (Marcy) Rockwell was born [redacted] years ago in America's Last, Best Place. A descendant of kings, pilgrims, Ojibwe hunters and possibly a witch or two, she spent the first few years of her life frolicking gleefully in a large backyard that is now part of one of the nation's largest Superfund sites. Perhaps that explains her early penchant for fantasy and horror - the first book she ever read (at the tender age of three) was Frank L. Baum's "Ozma of Oz."
Marcy sold her first short story to Marion Zimmer Bradley while in college and her first novel to Wizards of the Coast in 2005. She now lives in the desert in the shadow of an improbably green mountain and in odd moments stolen from her family and her writing, she can be found browsing eBay for Wonder Woman/Girl figures.