In the vast waters of the North Sea, obscure on the lonely isle of St. Kilda, lie the wind-swept ruins of the Heroine's House. This crumbling pile of stone holds the remains of a time of powerful foremothers who protected their people with ancient wisdom and spells, and cast prayers to the forces that preserved them since ice covered the land. But who was the heroine? She was Ronnat Rua. Now in her thirteenth year, Ronnat is apprenticed to her grandmother...