The Soothsayer

The woman with white hair to her shoulders and a strip of black silk over her eyes lives as an ordinary mortal, and nobody takes her for the diviner Nina Quinn. Sixty years ago Nina broke up her own divinity to carry people through a disaster. It came apart into twelve fragments, among them the Omniscient Eyes, which read fate, the Healing Heart that can pull someone back from death, and a Warrior Spirit no one has beaten in a fight. The twelve families that grew up around those fragments have run things ever since. Wesley Baker commands a corps of black-armoured soldiers and has orders to keep watch on her. He becomes her chief bodyguard, and then the most devoted of her believers. She has come back for the twelve fragments, and to set the rules of this world again.