Without Resham, there is no Avram. Without Avram, there is no Leoshine. Without Leoshine, the world ends.How old is Leoshine?She watched her sisters, servants, and cousins emerge from the Rite of Womanhood, some pregnant and blessed, some relegated to secondary status, all of them scarred and bitter. "When will it happen to me?"Cast into a culture she doesn't understand, dressed and paraded as an example of the "good" the invader believes he brings to her world, to save her people Leoshine must find their "good" amid their despicable.