Briana: a priestess fleeing her own temple because her own sisters would kill her for bearing a wizard's child; Kyellan: a crippled soldier caught between the love of two woman, and battling an immortal dark power within him; Gwydion: powerless in a land of enemies, unless he finds his stolen Magic and lost destiny; Chela: she would cast her soul against the nameless horrors of the Otherworld in the name of love; Valahtia: a young queen beset by a war-torn land, the slaughter of innocents and her brother's evil plots; Gemon: mad novice who found the Power of the Goddess and with it, might destroy the world and the Shapechanger: who would end the conflict of wizards, priestesses and kings as the tyrant over all. In their hands lay the fate of the world. Cover art by Janny Wurts.