Youthful, adventurous Tyrana is one of old Crete's legendary athletes. She dances with the Great Bull and flies upon the Four Winds. She knows the lore of seafarers and has many tattooed trophies to prove her courage.

And she will need every bit of that courage and skills she does not possess to survive the furor which chases her. Relentless, her enemies are everywhere.

But she has friends, too. A devoted companion. Two brave young giants, a mere boy so brutalized by war that he will never be more than a killer.
And there are the grandmothers who hide them and teach the ancient truths.

Of course such knowledge is never enough, not when the whole world is shifting under them.