When a motionless woman dressed in white appears in the village of Falk,

Kendall Stockton has no inkling that the strange apparition will soon

leave her homeless, and tangled in the affairs of mages and monsters.

For the white figure is the first sign of a spell which will shatter

cities, and make the caster as powerful as the gods.

Saved by a stranger who claims her goal is to stop the woman, Kendall is

torn between admiring the mage Rennyn Claire’s strength, and doubting

her methods. What is Rennyn willing to do to win? Do the best of

intentions justify pragmatic sacrifice, or is Rennyn Claire no better

than the monster she is trying to stop?

Fallon DeVries has a sister who lives only in his mind. Paying the price

of magic gone wrong, Aurienne is trapped watching a world she cannot

touch, only able to communicate with her brother while he sleeps.

And it’s slowly killing him.

Fallon and Auri’s best chance of untangling their lives is to win the

help of a mage of unparalleled ability. But how can they ask for help

when the warped spell prevents him from speaking?

Besides, Rennyn Claire - once the most powerful mage in the world - is a

shadow of her former self: ill, injured and unlikely to recover unless

she can hunt down the monster who once tried to make her his slave. But

that Wicked Uncle is nowhere to be found, and other dangers, once

slumbering dormant, are stirring…