Six weeks have passed since the bloody battle that ended Tristaine: The Clinic.The five Amazons of Tristaine, and Brenna, the City medic who escaped from the Clinic with them, have found healing refuge in an alpine meadow. Caster, the eminent City scientist who pursued them into the mountains, still stalks the refugees.
Through the calm summer, Brenna has grown to love Shann, Tristaine’s queen, and the two teenage Amazons in their party, Camryn and Kyla. But she gave her heart to Jesstin, the warrior who serves as Shann’s second, long before their escape from the City.
The six women learn Tristaine is in danger of attack by a vengeance-seeking Caster. They begin a dangerous trek home over mountain passes, carrying an injured Kyla. They arrive in time to learn that Caster has rallied her troops, and will attack within days...
Now available -- an enriched and revised second edition released by Bold Strokes Books in July of 2006.
Winner of the 2004 Golden Crown Literary Award for speculative fiction