Ishlair’s Councilor, Donya’s birthmother, her bondsisters and almost every Hadra in Ishlair agree: Donya needs to forget about her Shokarn lover and stay home. It wasn’t her idea to first go abroad as a Hadra spy, but now her heart belongs to Suinyari. To be with her lover means lies, deceit, even ignoring her own name—all anathema to a Hadra. But she cannot help but go back... A thief called Spider, an audacious smuggler as well as family and lovers join their voices in the story of the Hadra who fell in love with the enemy and balanced her people and her heart on the razor’s edge of fate.

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Sair is the pampered daughter of an upper-caste family until a brutal gang rape changes her life forever. Abandoned and left for dead, she walks to the ocean to kill herself. Instead she is rescued by the Hadra, wild riding-women with strange powers, women who ride their horses by consent, speak mind-to-mind with each other and are all lovers of women. This is Sair's own tale of her life and adventures among the Hadra, a journey that will finally take her to the fabled city of Zelindar.

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The daughters the young women bore during the passing of the Great Star possessed strange powers, which often they themselves did not understand. As they came of age, they found themselves estranged from their villages and even from their families. Driven out of their childhood homes, they found one another and formed an alliance with the Witches to create a community where they could belong. In this panoramic and exciting prequel to Journey to Zelindar, Diana Rivers portrays a world of strong and sensual women, ready to defend themselves against a hostile universe without surrendering their ability to love each other.

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The second book in the critically acclaimed Hadra series chronicles the further adventures of the fiercely proud tribe of women. Don't miss The Journey to Zelindar and Daughters of the Great Star.

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This is the tale of three women whose lives intertwine to transform their world -- Noya, the young Hadra chosen to be councilor for Zelindar in a time of war; Amairi, the Shokarn highborn who escapes her husband's violence to become a Wanderer; and Jolaina, the Koumairi peasant girl who becomes the Zarna's lover and advisor, and, when her beloved is betrayed and overthrown, chooses the life of a warrior. Together they challenge the united power of the Zarns, determined to stop them from destroying Zelindar. No matter the cost.

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In this climactic sequel to Clouds Of War, the Zarns` armies are now arrayed before Zelindar, the coastal city that is the heart of the Hadra world. Working together, Noya, Amairi, and Jolaina struggle to create an unlikely alliance between the Hadra, the Kourmairi, the Wanderers, and the Thieves Guild to defend the Yarmald peninsula with a magical line of power that cannot be crossed by an enemy's force.

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Nhazhul, a restless young Hadra from Ossen, and a niece to Hadra Councilor Ooyant, travels to the forbidden Shokarn city of Nhor. Breaking her vow not to intervene with the citizens there, Nhazul saves the life of a young Kitra and becomes embroiled in a daring and dangerous raid on the Gray Place, a huge cave under the city where Weavers are imprisoned for life. When the Hadra are are blamed for the raid, the Zarn demands that those involved be punished. In a desperate attempt to prevent a raid by the Zarn's army seeking retribution, Nhazul is forced to stand trial for her actions. Her Sister's Keeper is the long-awaited sixth installment in the acclaimed Hadra Series.

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