For Kivrin Engle preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century & inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone For her instructors in the twenty-first century it meant painstaking calculations & careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received But a crisis strangely linking past & future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her In a time of superstition & fear Kivrin
- barely of age herself
- finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history's darkest hours Winner of the Hugo Award 1993 Winner of the Nebula Award 1993A tour de force
- New York Times Book Review Ambitious finely detailed & compulsivly readable
- Locus It is a book that feels fundamentally true; it is a book to live in
- Washington Post