On a harsh frontier where good and evil contend for people\'s minds, a young woman must fight for her true identity in this scintillating YA fantasy from the author of the award-winning Age of the Seventh Sun trilogy.
Whenever danger threatens, Cat receives a vision--just.
Still, her gift has never deserted her.
The Blessed, rare people like Cat, are supposed to use their gifts to carry out missions for the Patron Saints, but she can only imagine that Saint Prudentia made a terrible mistake in choosing her.
It certainly wasn\'t the destiny she imagined--especially as one of the Blessed.
As Black Cat Whitfield, adopted daughter of an outlaw, she\'s wanted by the authorities.
Now family, home, and even her name have been stripped away.
Daughter of a wealthy rancher, pretty and educated, she looked forward to all the world had to offer--until fate took a turn.
Once, Catriona Macgregor led a charmed life.
On a harsh frontier where good and evil contend for people\'s minds, a young woman must fight for her true identity in this scintillating YA fantasy from the author of the award-winning Age of the Seventh Sun trilogy.
There\'s only one way to break through to sunrise--by turning to Face the night.
But as someone once told her, you can\'t outrun the darkness on your heels.
It would be easiest to flee the whole situation and never look back.
Cat is torn between guilt over her parents\' death, a longing for vengeance against their killers, and a dismaying new interest in Adrian.
A picture that involves facing up to the monstrous Baron Caldwell--the one who ordered her parents killed--and his son, Adrian, who betrayed them all.
And when she meets a renegade priest, Father Ignatius, he helps her understand how her ability may be part of a much bigger picture.
Whenever danger threatens, Cat receives a vision--just in time to save her life.
Still, her gift has never deserted her.
The Blessed, rare people like Cat, are supposed to use their gifts to carry out missions for the Patron Saints, but she can only imagine that Saint Prudentia made a terrible mistake in choosing her.
It certainly wasn\'t the destiny she imagined--especially as one of the Blessed.
As Black Cat Whitfield, adopted daughter of an outlaw, she\'s wanted by the authorities.
Now family, home, and even her name have been stripped away.
Daughter of a wealthy rancher, pretty and educated, she looked forward to all the world had to offer--until fate took a turn.
Once, Catriona Macgregor led a charmed life.
On a harsh frontier where good and evil contend for people\'s minds, a young woman must fight for her true identity in this scintillating YA fantasy from the author of the award-winning Age of the Seventh Sun trilogy
