Hardcover, 428 pages
English language
Published June 1999 by Tor Books.
Hardcover, 428 pages
English language
Published June 1999 by Tor Books.
The Ferns were slaves of the men in the Holdfast, until Alldera Conqueror led a band of rebels to overthrow the rule of men and build a world where women rule. Now Sorrel, Alldera's blood daughter, is coming over the hills from the camps of the Riding Women to join her mother, to claim a mother's attention and love. She brings with her a young boy she has adopted. She is desperately protective of this child; she has to be. In the world she left behind, men are aliens—and in the world her mother conquered, they are slaves.