A heroic fantasy by an award-winning author about a young woman who is
trained in the art of the sinister hand of magic, but at what price?
Isobel, upon her sixteenth birthday, makes the choice to work for the
devil in his territory west of the Mississippi. But this is not the
devil you know. This is a being who deals fairly with immense--but not
unlimited--power, who offers opportunities to people who want to make a
deal, and they always get what they deserve. But his land is a wild west
that needs a human touch, and that's where Izzy comes in. Inadvertently
trained by him to see the clues in and manipulations of human desire,
Izzy is raised to be his left hand and travel circuit through the
territory. As we all know, where there is magic there is chaos...and
death.