New York: Dutton, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Young adult novel by this award-winning fantasy writer. 16 year old Claidi is a slave in the House until a stranger comes and she risks all to free him and accompany him across the Waste to his faraway home, only to reach the Wolf Tower which has at its heart a Law even more cruel and mindless than the one she left behind. ISBN: 0-525-463941.