Laywren must make a choice and her world's survival depends on her making the right one—DreÓdreng to the goddess or Módor to the unnaturals?

Blessed by the goddess and raised to be a warrior, mixed-breed Laywren is brutal but fair. She lives by the sword, dagger and arrow, and she survives in a dystopian world by binding her horde of nomadic warriors to her rigid rule with medieval oaths and promises of the goddess' blessing.

Searching for answers to the barrenness of land and people that threatens their very existence, she leads her horde on an epic journey of war and faith in search of the most precious quest—children.

When it becomes apparent that the souls she sends to the Hall do not return, and the giant from the mountain claims the unnatural beasts are rising, and every village they plunder is childless her faith tremors.

Faced with extinction, Laywren is blessed one final time with the flush of fertility, but not by the goddess. Knowing her blessing is the result of heretic magic, and faced with an unnatural mate, Laywren must choose between being a DreÓdreng Warrior Queen or the first Módor in decades.

Time is running out as the dawn rises, and the flush begins to fade from her skin. Which will save her world—war against the unnaturals or acceptance of life beyond the control of the goddess?