When her granddaughter dies of river fever, the healer took her three year old great-grandson and fled to a mountain village so the boy's father would not take him from her. Ten years later, as she lay dying, she told the boy the king had killed his mother and made him promise to avenge her death. Degan begins his quest to kill the king, and find himself branded a thief and taken to the palace as a criminal. What he finds there changes his life forever. A magical adventure for all ages.