Volume one, The Brides of Maracoor, finds Elphaba?s
granddaughter, Rain, washing ashore on a foreign island. Comatose
from crashing into the sea, Rain is taken in by a community of
single women committed to obscure devotional practices.
As the mainland of Maracoor sustains an assault by a foreign
navy, the island?s civil-servant overseer struggles to understand
how an alien arriving on the shores of Maracoor could threaten
the stability and wellbeing of an entire nation. Is it myth or
magic at work, for good or for ill?