Sharon Shinn's first novel, The Shapechanger's Wife, was selected by Locus as the best first fantasy novel of 1995. In 1996, she won the William C. Crawford award for Outstanding New Fantasy writer, and has been twice nominated for the John W. Campbell award for Best New Writer. Now she concludes her popular and acclaimed "Samaria Trilogy" with a breathtaking novel of angels and technology, legends and lies, love and transcendance.