

If you are a non-EU customer, please see our returns policy. For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice center (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK). Refunds for orders cancelled under the provisions of the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations will be processed in accordance with your legal rights. If you are a UK/EU consumer, you have the legal right, under the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 to cancel your order within twenty eight (28) working days following your receipt of the goods or the date on which we begin provision of the services. And with her own gifts changing, Deka must discover if she holds the key to saving Otera.

Yet hidden secrets threaten to destroy everything Deka has known. For there is a dark force growing in Otera – a merciless power that Deka and her army must stop. But war is waging across the kingdom, and the real battle has only just begun.

It's been six months since Deka freed the goddesses in the ancient kingdom of Otera, and discovered who she really is. The stranger offers her a choice: fight for the Emperor, with others just like her, or be destroyed. She is saved by a mysterious woman who tells Deka of her true nature: she is an Alaki, a near-immortal with exceptional gifts. But when Deka bleeds gold - the colour of impurity, of a demon - she faces a consequence worse than death. Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in Otera, a deeply patriarchal ancient kingdom, where a woman's worth is tied to her purity, and she must bleed to prove it.
