This is the follow-on novel to Voice of Stone, first in the historical trilogy, which covered Inca society immediately before the advent of the Spanish. The story of Beatriz's fight for survival parallels the struggle of Inca culture to survive under Spanish domination. Both will endure like the silent stone used to build the fortress Sacsahuaman. Simultaneous with Beatriz's rise in social standing is her growing sense of the mysteries of religious...