Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0316010189, Hardcover)

A stunning tale of primal power and mythic beauty from a New York Times bestselling author. Rain is a girl of the Amazon tribe of women warriors, the daughter of Queen Alina, living in a time of blood and fear. As the future leader of her people, she must seek and hold fast to her inner warrior. But amid the horrors of the battlefield, Rain is startled and mystified by the first stirrings of mercy towards the enemymenwithin her. What she encounters along the poignant and harrowing path toward her destinya kind young man, a strange recurrent prophecy, and a condemned baby brotherlead her, against odds, to forge mercy, love, and peace.