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Young Maire's baby brother is stillborn—or so the midwife tells her. But Maire doesn't believe it and goes off to the fairy queen in the hollow under the hill to get her real brother back. When she finds the fairy queen—and her brother—she is forced to make a bargain beyond anything she ever thought she'd be willing to sacrifice.

Young Soni discovers a magic--the luz--that has been forbidden to her since birth. Her father used it and he was hunted down and killed--by those who teach about the luz at the scola. When Soni has a chance to go to the scola, she leaves her village despite her mother forbidding her to go, and goes to the city. At the scola, she learns about the luz with others her age.

Bettel receives a vision from the goddess of stillbirth that forces her down the path of entering a war against the child God who is determined to take revenge against his older sister. She alone can save her kingdom. With the assistance of her pregnant friend Loranna, the two try—and fail—again and again to join the army of villagers who are marching toward the border. She can convince no one that she has been commanded by the goddess to leave, but neither can she simply go home.

Kara is a brilliant physicist at Princeton. Colin is an English graduate student and then professor. Opposites attract. Eventually. But those differences become problems as their marriage progresses and they become parents. Kara is distracted one day by a work phone call when she is supposed to be caring for their daughter. As a result, their daughter drowns. Colin blames her. She blames herself. She withdraws, focusing on the only solution she can think of: creating a time machine to go back and save her child.