Years have passed since Galaphile and his life partner, Nirianne, established Paranor as a way to bring harmony to the Four Lands. Now their two sons are becoming men in a land of peace and it is a land that their eldest child, Abronja, finds rather boring. At 16, he longs for a way to prove himself. But when the excitement he has been longing for materializes, it is in the form of an old evil. Galaphile has always dreaded this wicked resurgence. Abronja was conceived while the dark sorcerer had control of Nirianne, and Galaphile has always feared that a spark of malevolence lives on in his beloved child. Abronja, for his part, is certain he will never be corrupted by evil. He is fully committed to his fatherʼs vision for peace and is determined to make his name by finally destroying the monster that has targeted his family. But tangling with dark magic is not a thing to be taken lightly.