A nobleman's first duty is to produce a male heir, women are treated like possessions and bargaining chips-- until a world-altering spell ripple out physically and culturally. Alys is the widowed mother of two adolescent children, and the disinherited daughter of a king. She discovers a fierce talent not only for politics but also for magic. In a neighboring kingdom Ellin finds herself unexpectedly on the throne after the sudden death of her grandfather...

"The third and final book in Jenna Glass's riveting feminist fantasy, following The Women's War and Queen of the Unwanted. In the once male-dominated world of Seven Wells, women now control their own reproduction, and two special women now sit two thrones, but the battle for equality is very far from over. Those men still in power are determined to revert the world to the way it was before women gained an edge, whereas the women know there are many...