Godspeaker by Karen Miller

Empress

by Karen Miller

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...