With a magical gift for bringing sorcery to vivid life, acclaimed author Naomi Kritzer continues the suspenseful tale of Lauria and Tamar, sisters-in-arms bonded by bloodand torn apart by their enemies....As a freeborn servant of the Greeks, Lauria once hunted escaped slaves. But as her loyalties shifted, she found herself freeing those she once capturedand loving those she once mistrustedlike Tamar, of the bandit Alashi tribe. Tamar is now Laurias blood-sister. But the powerful Greek sorceresses, the Sisterhood of Weavers, do not take treason lightlyespecially when the traitor has liberated the djinni who serve them.Soon Lauria is imprisoned. Desperate, Tamar pleads her case to the Alashi, who send her to sow discord among the Sisterhood. As Tamar searches for Lauria both in reality and in the dreamlike realm known as the borderland, Lauria must trust the magic within to fulfill a wish both desired and feared: freedom for all....From the Paperback edition.