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Wepanu, a desert wanderer and holder of an ancient prophecy, holds the key to a world's survival and brings together two enemies--Merkus, a Tel-mari freedom fighter, and Sekme, a female Maurheti solder--in a violent confrontation that could spell either ultimate peace or an all-encompassing holocaust

n's award-winning first novel, The Merro Tree, heralded the arrival of an exciting new science fiction talent. Now the exceptional promise of that acclaimed debut is more than met in a powerfully original story of love, loss, and transformation. Set on a war-torn world of stark contrasts and fragile balances, of plenitude and poverty, romance and betrayal, Sa'har will stir the heart and haunt the mind long after the last page is turned. . . .<br><br>Sekmé is a rarity--a female Maurheti soldier risen to the rank of Commander at the tender age of twenty-four. Daughter of a pilot killed in a gel-bombing raid on godless Tel-mari civilians, Sekmé is determined to crush resistance once and for all. But the merciless efficiency that has made her a hero to her soldiers and a demon to the enemy has also earned Sekmé the enmity of dangerous men closer to home. Men with interests other than victory.<br><br>Merkus is a freedom fighter leading the resistance against the despoilers of Tel