by Rosemary Kirstein

Given Up

The Guidestars: two shining lights hanging motionless in the night sky. But the steerswoman Rowan has learned that there are more than two -- and that one, astoundingly, has fallen, and now lies deep in the distant Outskirts. Traveling with her friend Bel, an Outskirter warrior-poet, Rowan has a chance of surviving the wild and deadly land. But there are more secrets than one in the Outskirts: