Coming of age is difficult for most girls, but becoming the disciple of the god Kaji, the god of vengence, forces Altza into adult hood with horrific, terrible consequences. Her escape from the blood stained hands of Aldoc Rey allowed Altza to return to a home she thought safe from the pains of the world. No one in the river valleys is ready for the price they must pay for their years of casual indifference to the laws handed down to them by the gods. Keltin, her father bares the brunt of her growing power and must take sides between his beliefs in god's law verses man's law. Altza's metamorphysis into the living incarnation of Kaji tears the community apart, as people must come to grips with the fact that one of the gods they have worshiped for a thousand years is more terrible and unforgiving then their worst enemies.