Master Melayse mei’Castelli returns from the Northern Vasts campaign to take charge of her young acolyte, Dessa Colbins. Yet her arrival at Whitehall marks the beginning of events far darker than she expected. The battle, however, is only the beginning. When the dust settles, an older power begins to stir — Aldem’Endasil, the Millennium Stone — and the world will not remain unchanged.