Publisher's blurb: Primitive straw huts dot this rocky desert village. At its center is a deep gully with a small stream running through it. Wooden walkways cross the chasms, connecting the huts to one another. The surrounding wasteland is barren and dry, filled with sand and crumbling stone from the rocky outcrops. Alongside the river, prickly plants—as hostile as this land and known as Prophet’s Roses—grow with red blossoms.