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Through a series of letters to the Abbey, seventeen-year-old Maresi documents her return home to the small, oppressed province of Rovas, determined to start a school but finding she has much to learn.
Maresi has left the Abbey and returned to her village in the province of Rovas. The people there are still struggling under the rule of the oppressive Earl, and are too busy trying to survive to see the value of her teachings. Maresi must use all the terrible force of the Crone's magic to protect her people. She documents her struggle to start a school in a series of letters to the Abbey. -- adapted from jacket and Amazon info