Life has been quiet for Aran since moving to Banter. She is a prosperous business owner, has friends, and helps those in need without question. Yet a delivery of a mysterious, jewel-encrusted box changes all of that in an instant. Not only does the mysterious box prove someone knows her deepest secret, it imprisons a man unlike any other. A warrior from a place she's never heard of, a land she's never known. It doesn't take long to discover she is the only one with the knowledge to set him free, with a magic he cannot trust. Rordan must somehow return to Eglandor to stop the wicked sorceress who imprisoned him, deliver the throne to King Tah-lel's appointed heir, and fulfill his destiny with the woman from another time, another world. And there's only so much time to do it with the King's health failing and an uprising from within waiting for the moment to claim the throne.