In 70 CE, 900 Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on a mountain in the Judean desert, Masada. Two women and five children are believed to have survived. Based on this, Alice Hoffman weaves a tale of four extraordinary women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path.

In this powerful, lovely sequel to GREEN ANGEL, Green must learn the stories of a number of "witches" and free her true soul mate from a prison as she grapples with life, love and loss in a post-disaster world.

Rain is girl of the Amazon tribe of women warriors, born in a time of blood and fear. As the future leader of her people, she must seek and hold fast to her inner warrior. What she encounters along her poignant and harrowing path toward her destiny --- a kind young man, a strange, recurrent prophecy, and a condemned baby brother --- lead her, against odds, to forge mercy, love, and peace.

Left on her own when her family dies in a terrible disaster, 15-year-old Green is haunted by loss and by the past. Struggling to survive physically and emotionally, Green retreats into the ruined realm of her garden. It is only through a series of mysterious encounters that Green can relearn the lessons of love and begin to heal enough to tell her story.