Philip Pullman meets Avatar in a new epic fantasy series Seventeen-year-old Kateiko doesn't want to be Rin anymore -- not if it means sacrificing lives to protect the dead.
Her only way out is to join another tribe, a one-way trek through the coastal rainforest.
Killing a colonial soldier in the woods isn't part of the plan.
Neither is spending the winter with Tiernan, an immigrant who keeps a sword with his carpentry tools.
His log cabin leaks and his stories about other worlds raise more questions than they answer.
Then the air spirit Suriel, long thought dormant, resurrects a war.
For Kateiko, protecting other tribes in her confederacy is atonement.
For Tiernan, war is a return to the military life he's desperate to forget.
Leaving Tiernan means losing the one man Kateiko trusts.
Staying with him means abandoning colonists to a death sentence.
In a region tainted by prejudice and on the brink of civil war, she has to decide what's worth dying -- or killing -- for.
Ecw Press The call of the rift: flight, hardcover/jae waller
