Ma's tears wet my neck as I backed into our hut. I lay her down on the
mattress and slumped into Pa's chair. His tobacco smell curled around
me. I breathed him in as my tears fell and anger bubbled under my skin. I
was to be a Blood Moon Bride.
Magic has long been outlawed in Mennama Valley, its practice punishable
by death. Dozens of village boys are recruited to defend the valley's
borders. And every winter, on the night of the Blood Moon, young women
enter forced marriages to breed children for the Valley's advancement and
prosperity. But when the enemy grows stronger and more village boys are
lost each winter, Governor Kyra foresees a decline in population, so he
decrees that girls of just fifteen must become Blood Moon Brides, too.
Rehya, a hunter, has uncanny senses she must hide in this patriarchal
world where freedom of thought is punishable with rehabilitation at the
Nest. She does not want to be a bride, but when her Pa dies, shattering
her plans of escape, she is paraded in front of suitors on Show Day.
Rehya is appalled by the ritual and when she is chosen to be a wife, she
lashes out. In punishment, she is sent to the Nest to be rehabilitated.
There Rehya must decide- should she avoid torture and submit to a life of
oppression, or rebel – and risk everything to fight for her freedom and
restore justice to the world.
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