A new world has risen from the collapse of our own. Humanity has renounced material progress and revoked male privilege. Realms are now ruled by women, queens whom power makes despots and rivals.

A new world has risen from the collapse of our machine-driven, male-dominated civilization, one born after a pact with Mother Earth gives women power. This is the era of the Queens. Males are second-class citizens and equality exists only among nomadic Gypsy tribes. Faith, of the Brittania tribe, loves Milo. Jealous and resentful when spurned, she steeps her blood-stained laundry in water and bids him drink. Expelled from the tribe, Milo must survive on his own. An epic journey begins for the young man whose life has been turned upside down by extraordinary forces, and for Faith, a girl driven by caprice and desire. As in Virgil, Sophocles, and Aeschylus, winding paths lead Milo and Faith to their inescapable fate, which governs gods and heroes alike.