From the back cover of the Baen first edition: "A woman's touch - In Caraid-land there are two focal points of power: the cynes, rulers who have come from the house Malcuim, and the Osraed, priests of the Meri who are chosen by her will alone. Every hundred years the aspect of Meri changes - and with her latest change the people of Caraid-land were shaken to the core. Now Taminy, she who was once persecuted as a witch, she who was once the Meri's vessel, walks the land again - and the power structure will never be the same..."
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Placement
- Meri — #3