ChanceShaper

the long version

"For twenty years, the Maga invaders have been ravaging the world. Now the world has forged a defender: a woman who can touch its living power. Kara, daughter of a great healer, knows only the life of a slave in the toxic darkness of a mine. Her murdered mother's healing herbs grow untended while her family toils in the fields to grow food for Maga tables. What else can they do? The world binds them to its peace. Violence is unthinkable. Yet Kara is anything but peaceful. She'd wipe the Maga off the face of the earth if she could. When she's accused of sabotage and has to run for her life, Kara discovers that she has the ability to alter chance to make her wishes a reality. But her wishes bring only storm and chaos. Soon, the violence that follows her ignites a war between Maga factions, forcing her into an improbable alliance with Maga Master Gerek ... at tie that, against Kara's every instinct, begins to grow into something more. As she struggles to contol her wild power, Kara will find out if her willingness to fight the hated Maga will heal the living world--or destroy it"--