Aurora's quest to find Brother Hundfanger, the half-Elf she thinks she loves, is not going nearly as well as she anticipated. In fact, it's been one disaster after another. If she isn't fighting off Angelicus or Stone Giants, then she is accidentally destroying towns and cities as she moves Warm-side in her attempt to get to The Barrier Mountains and the woods of the Elves. With Tzigana the half-Ogre cleric, Pyros the Dragon-Born fighter, Deirdre the Halfling thief, and of course Stiz the Satyr, she is becoming more and more powerful as an Imbe and yet, she has no idea why she is so important. To add to her problems, the gods and goddesses have decreed that she needs to decide the fate of The Land of the Five Rivers and do it sooner rather than later and she wants no part of that whatsoever. And then there is the issue with her realization that she just might love someone else more than Brother Hundfanger and what does she do with that.....