currency is strength, a small community struggles to maintain a place for weakness. But when a mysterious electric light appears in the southern sky, a young caregiver must leave the only home he has ever known in an effort to save that home. What he finds will call into question the nature of survival itself. The Shepherd of Princes is a novel about what it means, and what it costs, to care for another person. It is a meditation on the gifts that those who seem to have nothing can offer their society, and of the price that is to be paid when those gifts are refused. It is a meditation on the hidden gifts that make us human, and a warning of the price to be paid when those gifts are refused.