#paperback#fiction#fantasy#magic On a fateful night five centuries ago ,three mages made a desperate last stand,sacrificing everything to preserve the only hope of goodness in the beautiful,doomed land of Alaska.Now on the anniversary of that ominous night,a girl-child ripens into the heritage of lost power. But before she can even comprehend her terrible new gift ,the dark lord dispatches his winged monsters to capture her and bring him the embryonic magic she embodies. Fleeing the minions of darkness,Elena is swept toward certain doom -and into the company of unexpected allies.There she forms a band of the hunted and the cursed, the outcast and the outlaws,to battle the unstoppable of evil and rescue a once glorious empire ………

ISBN: 0070999007502