"The first of a great fantasy trilogy by the author of the Diadem novels."--Cover.
"UE 1729"--Cover.
Cover art by Ken Kelly.
"Serroi had been an outcast. She was a misborn of the windrunners, of small stature with pale olive skin and certain strangely heightened sensitivities. But now she was a meie, a woman warrior trained by an exclusive order. She had been with her shieldmate at the Plaz when she overheard the assassination plot against the Domnor. A murder was to take place at Moongather, that time of increased access to the demon world. But while tring to escape with the information, Serroi broke her shieldmate oath, a breach of honor which made life unbearable for her, and forced her back, to search for her betrayed shieldmate and warn the Domnor, although the land itself seemed to be hunting her!"--Page [4] of cover.