alternate cover edition heretroubled young fawn bluefield seeks a life beyond her familys farm enroute to the city she encounters a patrol of lakewalkers the necromancers armed with human bone knives fight malices immortal entities that draw out life enslaving humans and animals dag saves fawn from a malice at a devastating cost their fates are now bound in a remarkable journey youd think being abducted by aliens would be the worst thing that could happen to me and youd be wrong because now the aliens are having ship trouble and theyve left their cargo of human women including me on an ice planet and the only native inhabitant ive met hes big horned blue and really really has a thing for me