After being washed overboard and ending up on the Goddess' Isle, Karana must confront startling truths about her own heritage. **********Back Blurb:She's earned her shield in a quarter the time it usually takes.

She's slain the Evil Wizard Henig to save the Realm and extract vengeance for the murder of her parents. She's taken the reins of her far-flung merchant empire - including the Metreedis' Secret and Ancient Mission.

And she's managed to navigate a solution to falling in love with both of her Knight-Companions. Karana is surely due a break.

. .

But Wind and Wave are no respecters of competence. .

. or are they?Supposedly only those the Goddess really wants to see are allowed to come to the shores of Her Blessed Isle********Teaser:"You must ask the Goddess to heal him.

That's a fatal wound, Karana. His skull is cracked and blood pools against his brain.

""No!" Karana gasped, her strength quite wrung out. Kefen lay unmoving, his head in her lap, the huge purpling bruise standing out from his forehead.

"To each their time must come. Perhaps it is simply his time.

" The words were almost harsh, but the tone somehow carried a compassion that was. .

. beyond human.

"No!" Karana cried again. "It can't be!""And why not?" the strange, silvery woman asked, seeming merely curious.

"Because - because-" Words failed the knightess, and she bent her head. "Because?".