Passage is volume three of The Sharing Knife.

Fawn Bluefield and her husband Dag Redwing Hickory have survived magical dangers, and the entities known as malices, but the bigotry of family and kin is not so easily overcome

With new companions, Fawn's brother, two novice patrollers, a flatboat captain seeking both her missing father and fiancee, a backwoods hunter and a farmer boy, Fawn and Dag leave behind all they have known to find a solution to the rift between their peoples. The odd crew will face challenges as they explore a world of dangers both canny and uncanny.

Lois McMaster Bujold is one of the great writers of the speculative fiction/fantasy world. Her world building, characterization and plotting grow and change without losing an iota of depth and voice . Long may she write. ~~ Pam Allan