Description: Winter is nearing, and soon the keentens will choose girls to join their number. Alia wants desperately to be part of the sisterhood of warrior women but worries that her best friend, Kay, will be choosen and she will not. When the girls discover two young enemies hiding in the wood near their village and succeed in capturing them Alia is triumphant. At last she has proved herself worthy of the sisterhood.
But then everything starts to go wrong, forcing her to question all that has always been cerain in her life...and she begis to feel the call of a rare and ancient magic that is hard to ignore.