On the heels of a global epidemic, a Holy New Order has arisen, one in which females are subjugated. For Maree Krystek, the pharmaceutical mind-wipe that ushered in the New Order failed, a fact she manages to conceal, but which makes her service as the Prophet's concubine unendurable. But endure she does-until her sister Zophia is identified as a breeder, a soul-destroying fate of birthing infants, only to surrender them to wet nurses to expedite...