Hand of Prophecy Reading Group Guide

The author of the much praised Speaking Dreams returns to the same far future universe in her second novel -- a spellbinding world of brutality, betrayal, triumph, and love.Frenna, a slave on the frontier planet of Naya-Bellea, escapes carrying a valuable secret -- three doses of a drug that can cure the virus that has enslaved her people for decades. Rescued, Frenna is abandoned on a violent world, where she is pressed into service as a medic at the sporting arena. The competitors are human slaves; who fight to the death. Frenna becomes involved in an underground movement to free her fellow slaves, and must decide who will be the beneficiaries of her precious doses of the life-saving cure.