An ancient prophecy. A young woman's destiny.
Lorness Carol, coming of age in the kingdom of her warlord father, Lord
Rafel, aspires to wield magic. But she's also unknowingly become the
obsession of Kragan, an avenging wielder as old as evil itself. He's
waited centuries to find and kill the female prophesied as the only
human empowered to destroy him. However, dispatching the king's
assassin, Blade, to Rafel's Keep, ends in treason. For Blade arrives not
with a weapon but rather a warning for the woman he's known and loved
since he was a child. With a price on his head, Blade flees--as Carol
and her family are urged away on their own desperate route of escape.
Now, traversing the lawless western borderlands, Carol struggles to
understand the uncanny magic she possesses and must learn to master.
Though separated, Carol and Blade are still united--not only by the
darkness pursuing them both but by a quest toward destiny, revenge, and
the revelations of an ancient prophecy that signal the ultimate war
between good and evil.