Book description
When a naked, amnesiac stranger is found outside a remote highland
village, he is taken in by Kerin, a widow whose unconventional ways are
tolerated because her son Damaru is 'skytouched' - he appears simple,
but he is able to affect matter. All skytouched are tested by the
Beloved Daughter, the living goddess who rules the world from the City
of Light. If he's found worthy, Damaru will become a Consort of the
skymothers, the Gods of this world.
Kerin and the stranger, nicknamed Sais, accompany Damaru to the City,
in the company of a priest who's helping Sais to get back his missing
past - but as Sais recovers his memory, he realises that the world does
not work the way he assumed - and everyone believes - it does. Worse
still, the hierarchy which has kept society stable for thousands of
years is rotten to the core. Then Kerin and Sais uncover the true nature
of the world, and the unimaginable fate of the Consorts - a fate Kerin
will do anything to stop her son sharing. Jaine Fenn studied
Linguistics and Astronomy at university before embarking on a career as
an IT consultant. She is the author of the Hidden Empire sequence, which
includes Principles of Angels
and Consorts of Heaven
. She lives with her husband in Hampshire.
