Publisher's Synopsis
In 16th century Germany tyranny reins, reading is outlawed and the church has control over an oppressed people. 16 year-old Luci Pohlman has spent her life in hiding with a paranoid mother who teaches from a book of strange markings filled with words of prophets from long ago. When her mother is imprisoned for witchcraft, Luci is kidnapped and dragged into the black forest. Her mother knew too much and now, so does Luci. As the German Army, a band of gypsies and a man named Martin Luther seek Luci, she must figure out how the words of the book she was never meant to possess can set her and her country free.
