In the scorching heat of the desert, wooden ships drift, dragged by teams of convicts across the sand. Water is what all living things crave—and power over water is power over life. What is it like to pull the convict labor of someone who once owned the water?
When a vicious robber moon rises over the world, all sorts of things happen… An offspring of an ancient house is suddenly reduced to powerless slavery on a sand galley. But fate plays with him as it wants—soon he is no longer a slave, but the leader of a gang of raiders whose sandships terrorize the surrounding lands…
A world created by Yevgeny Lukan’s imagination is plausible down to the smallest details—and at the same time fantastic in the best traditions of the genre.