In the third exhilarating novel in this dazzling epic fantasy series,
a young outcast will fight against staggering odds to save her world.
On the planet Abeth, a narrow Corridor of green land is surrounded on
all sides by ice plains where only the strong survive. Ice triber Yaz
has completed a perilous journey and arrived at the Corridor, and it
exceeds and overwhelms all of her expectations. Everything seems
different but some constants remain: her old enemies are still two steps
ahead, bent on her destruction. She makes her way to the Convent of
Sweet Mercy, where nuns train young girls who show the old gifts, but
like the Corridor itself the convent is packed with peril and
opportunity. Yaz has much to learn from the nuns--if they don't decide
to execute her.
The fate of everyone squeezed between the Corridor's vast walls, and
ultimately the fate of those laboring to survive out on ice itself,
hangs from the moon, and the battle to save the moon centers on the Ark
of the Missing, buried beneath the emperor's palace. Everyone wants Yaz
to be the key that will open the Ark - the one the wise have sought for
generations. But sometimes wanting isn't enough.