The Daughters of Izdihar meets The Foxglove King: An ex-soothsayer and stranded scholar of curses upend a Utopian community that has no love for refugees.
40 year old Melynda Rye has been considered contemptable in her village for a number of years - never married because no man has ever seemed to want her, she's called an old maid and her opinions and feelings are never taken seriously by anyone.
