A must-read before going to Machu Picchu, Cusco, or southern Ecuador. Tara, a noble child in the Ca ari Empire, is taken to the Acllahuasi "Women's House" in Cusco by the Inkas who conquer her native land. In the Acllahuasi, she is afraid she will be tortured, made a slave, and killed. Instead, she finds the Inka culture was not what she expected and she tries to learn to be a proper Inka woman. But then she learns that the Inkas want...