OF SAND AND STORM

By law, any child born in Idara is free, even if that child is born in a slave brothel. But as Cinder grows into a beauty that surpasses even that of her mother and grandmother, she realizes that freedom is only a word. There are other words too, stronger words. Words like betrayal and prison and death. And there are words even stronger still. Words like courage and family and love. , In the end, if Cinder is to escape the fate of her matriarchs, she',ll have to fight for her freedom. Because true freedom is never free._,