Publisher's Synopsis
In the village of Kaunolu, penalties for breaking kapu, the island's sacred laws, are severe: strangulation, clubbing, burning, death. Something sixteen-year-old best friends Rena and Sarai have long since disagreed upon. So when Rena is accused of stealing water then banished to a remote island, Sarai knows something is wrong; Rena would never break kapu, not with these laws so dear to her heart.Sarai is determined to find Rena and absolve her sin, but soon discovers Rena was instead taken to a warrior camp where she will be groomed into a rebel hunter. A murderer. As Sarai rushes to save her best friend from becoming a monster, Rena begins to thrive as a warrior, understanding for the first time in her life that fighting those who disregard island laws is her calling.Sarai has always wished for an island without such harsh laws, but when she learns her father has become leader of the rebels, she questions these feelings. Has she been a rebel all along? Breaking law after law certainly suggest so, which is what Rena sees when Sarai finally locates her. Face to face, the girls understand what they've both become: rebel versus rebel hunter.
