Release Date: November 1st, 2012 Age Group: AdultFormat: e-bookSource: Received from the author in exchange for an honest review. The saints favor her, else-wise a peasant girl like Kate Carpenter would never be apprenticed to the kingdom’s master healer. But her patron saint also marks her ready for the duty of tending to a mission that must cross the ice-bound mountains. Their little kingdom faces invasion by a vast empire and desperately needs allies; across the snow-filled pass, through the deathly thin air, is a country that’s held off the empire and may be willing to lend an army.  Kate knows about frostbite and the everyday injuries of wilderness travel. She can heal…