Return of the Mantra

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781939269744 Suni has always known she is different. She and her mother Mata make their living weaving baskets, and selling herbs they harvest secretly at night. Her father abandoned them to work in the tyrannical King's crystal mines. Mata follows the old ways of the Mantra, which the King has outlawed. He demands people worship him and the power of the crystals. Mata and Suni keep their beliefs to themselves. Tragedy strikes, and with no warning, Suni is cut adrift. She sets off to find her father. Will she also find the destiny Mata wanted for her?