The women served, bred, and obeyed-never questioning the dark Divine Will that yearly claimed the lives of their sons. The men ruled, meditated, and sired-if they survived. That was the way it had always been on Marah, where a deadly virus attacked young males and left ony a few to reach maturity...the way it had always been until a beautiful and forceful Terran female landed and began asking questions-and a devoted true-believing Shepherd named Jared began having doubts!