"Readers who love medieval-esque fantasy will delight in this rousing tale of rebellion." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Sister Alessia swore to take no part in the dynastic struggle raging across two kingdoms. But when a warlord slaughters her patients and forbids her temple hospital to care for victims from the wrong side, she throws off her bloodstained habit and quits the cloister rather than submit.

Determined to save lives, Alessia attracts a growing band of peasants, smugglers and deserters fleeing the conflict, like the farmer Ulnoth grieving his massacred family, and Corren, a deserting soldier sick of atrocities. But many in the group crave vengeance, naming their band the Heron Kings and using the forest camp to lead guerrilla raids against the forces of both sides. Alessia struggles to temper their fury as well as tend wounds, consenting to ever greater violence to keep them all safe.

The warring factions unleash spies, mercenaries and mass crucifixions to exterminate the lowborn insurgents. But when they uncover a foreign conspiracy prolonging the bloodshed, Alessia and the Heron Kings will risk the lives they've saved on a last shot at survival: to present proof of the plot to the very forces hunting them and convince all sides to bring the war to an end.

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