to be alive
Graci, a native of the fictional Northern Highlands of Ovurra, must forge a truce with Southern army general Brand Letra in order to save her best friend, but quickly realizes Southerners are not as scary as her people believe them to be- at least not this one. They become friends as she teaches him about native Highlander culture, and quickly needs to decide if she will choose blood and culture or forbidden friendship and chosen family as tensions between Highlanders and their Southern neighbours increase.…