This is a book about the path. About what makes us who we are and how the road we walk changes us. And this is also a book about choice: about what we choose, and about what people and gods choose for us, fate and its random circumstances. Gerda di Centa could have 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 lucky mercenary, wife, daughter, mistress and girlfriend. She could become anyone, but she became the one who decides who he should be. The black moon is both the day it was born and the symbol of its fate, the name of the Great Dark Goddess sympathizing with it and the nickname of Gerda herself. So the adventures of Gerda di Centa, nicknamed the Black Moon, begin where the tale ends and life begins as it is.