Ryana, a worthless girl-child, comes to a mysterious woman who all calls for her to the home of the Shadow Sisters who have are prized for his or her abilities while spies and assassins. She survives years of training in spite of being unconventional: adopting poisonous bats as familiars-something nobody else would dare to accomplish; selecting the blow dart as her weapon of choice-a weapon the Sisters don’t train; and relying on intuition rather than reasoning. As she completes her training, the Shadow Sisters are under about The Shadow Ryana assault. The older Sister selects Ryana to find out who is killing Sisters and why-because her intuitive approach has proved effective, despite the fact that her youth and inexperience helps it be unlikely she will survive. As she travels through the kingdom as a member of a gypsy clan, she discovers the only path she can protect the Sisters and hope to discover the root plot is certainly through a lot more violence and eliminating. As she proceeds through the provinces, her secret enemies come to call her the Sister of Death and become eager to find and kill her. However in her desperate fight to safeguard the Sisterhood as well as the kingdom, Ryana fears that she has destroyed herself as well as the only lifestyle she ever needed.