``Joyously wild stuff.
Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as infants..
Highly recommended.`` -- The New York Times The Black Tides of Heaven is one of a pair of unique, standalone introductions to JY Yang\'s Tensorate Series, which Kate Elliott calls ``effortlessly fascinating.`` For more of the story you can read its twin novella The Red Threads of Fortune , available simultaneously. ``Joyously wild stuff