In this first of a series fantasy, there is no money-all transactions are bartered and anything can be traded, including people. Two children (children are possessions until their 12th birthday), Lily and Mark, cross paths when they both find themselves in the service of an astrologer, but they each have other plans: Mark outsmarts his master and learns how to thrive in barter system; Lily chooses to strike out on her own in an unheard of direction-she starts a charity.
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