2016 Nebula Award finalist for Best Novelette From Fran Wilde, the Andre Norton and Compton Crook Award-winning author of Updraft. - Locus.
I suspect the world it\'s set in might yield more fine stories.
Pretty cool [and] nicely written...
If she can assume her royal dignity, and if Sima can master the most dangerous gemstone in the land, they may be able to survive.
As screaming raiders sweep down from the mountains, and Lapidary servants shatter under the pressure, the last princess of the Valley will have to summon up a strength she\'s never known.
The Jeweled Court has been betrayed.
Jewel Lin and her Lapidary Sima may be the last to enjoy that peace.
That power has kept the peace and tranquility, and the kingdom has flourished.
The kingdom in the Valley has long sheltered under the protection of its Jewels and Lapidaries, the people bound to singing gemstones with the power to reshape hills, move rivers, and warp minds. 2016 Nebula Award finalist for Best Novelette From Fran Wilde, the Andre Norton and Compton Crook Award-winning author of Updraft
