In this Philip K. Dick Award-winning series, one woman's unknowable
destiny depends on a bold new step in human evolution.
In the wake of the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in a highly
gendered post-plague society where females have become a precious,
coveted, hunted, and endangered commodity. But Flora does not
participate in the economy that trades in bodies. An anathema in a world
that prizes procreation above all else, she is an outsider everywhere
she goes, including the thriving all-female city of Shy.
Now navigating a blighted landscape, Flora, her friends, and a sullen
young slave she adopts as her own child leave their oppressive pasts
behind to find their place in the world. They seek refuge aboard a ship
where gender is fluid, where the dynamic is uneasy, and where rumors
flow of a bold new reproductive strategy.
When the promise of a miraculous hope for humanity's future tears
Flora's makeshift family asunder, she must choose: protect the safe
haven she's built or risk everything to defy oppression, whatever its
provenance.