This is a book about the path. About what makes us who we are, and about how the road we follow changes us. And this is a book about choice: about what we choose, and about what people and gods, fate and its random circumstances choose for us. Gerda di Centa could have had many different destinies. She could become a spoiled child in the house of a wealthy aristocrat or a victim of crime, a court lady or a merciless killer, a powerful sorceress or a successful mercenary, a wife, daughter, lover and friend. She could have become anyone, but she became the one who decides for herself who she should be. The black moon is both the day she was born and a symbol of her fate, the name of the Great Dark Goddess who sympathizes with her and the nickname of Gerda herself. So, the adventures of Gerda di Centa, nicknamed the Black Moon, begin where the fairy tale ends and life as it is begins.