I started this book on my day off, intending to read a couple of chapters and then go run some errands. Eight hours and several cups of coffee later, I'd read it straight through without stopping. Meg Corbyn is a blood prophet who sees visions when her skin is cut, visions her owner sells for exorbitant sums. After escaping with the most valuable thing she has — her own body — Meg takes asylum in the only place she can: a Courtyard of the Others, where human law does not apply. Meg knows she may have traded one danger for another, but when the Others grow attached to her and her owner comes looking to claim her, Meg may be just the thing to break the uneasy truce between humans and the Others. And when the Others go to war, entire species go extinct. - Em