Godspeaker is a fantasy trilogy by Karen Miller and contains the novels "Empress of Mijak", "The Riven Kingdom" and "Hammer of God".
Empress is the first volume in the Godspeaker trilogy, written by Australian author Karren Miller.
Hekat is a girl treated worse than a slave with a violent father who beats her mother and rapes her repeatedly on the insistence that she should give him more sons. Not even named, she is eventually sold to a slave trader called Abajai and they begin their journey to Abajai's homeland, Et-Raklion city in the land of Mijak.
On the journey one of the traders refers to...
Freedom is just chaos, with better lighting.