Her journey continues, with the help of her friend Trag. Jeniche wants to leave the city, while Trag is bound by personal obligation to tend the horses in the stable he works in. Life takes some very strange turns – Jeniche runs head on into the lady of a house that she is robbing … only to have the lady gift her with a beautiful amulet. Then she encounters a group of monks and nuns, who want her to help them escape the city (the soldiers will not allow them to leave), and lead them across the dessert back to their homeland.
The enemy here is the aggressive Occassan soldiers, who will stop at nothing to win. And they are after Jeniche! Not even she knows why. Do they want something she has? Or do they want to make use of her skills?
Jeniche, Trag, and their little tribe of monks and nuns manage to escape the city, and begin their journey through the desert into the mountains. Oh, yes … they have added another partner, a big man by the name of Alltud, who isn’t the drunk that he once seemed to be as he kept reappearing in Jeniche’s life.
The people and things that are encountered on this journey are mind boggling … rooms filled with treasure, intricate swords, calligraphy on stone walls that Jeniche thinks she has seen before, but she is not sure where, dead bodies … and airships! Where do Jeniche and Alltud come from … what is their history, and why were they brought together? At the end of the journey, are the Occassan going to win, or do they have a surprise in store for them? And what part does the amulet play in this saga?
Well written, fast paced, with a complex background and story line. I certainly look forward to the next book in this series!
© May 2013 Bonnie Cehovet