Following a spell gone wrong, ex-assassin fire witch Iefyr Sealash wakes from five years of contentment in the Haven Cove refuge to find his mind shattered and his family captured by High King Nylian's warlocks. As his memories collide with his present and his wife Benny is forced to undergo the Spellkeeper completion sequence, Iefyr is sent on a quest to unearth an ancient Spellkeeper who may only exist as a legend.
Iefyr's fragmented mind is only one adversary he must face. The price of failure is high. If he does not return the lost Spellkeeper to the capital city of Anthora, he will be declared a traitor and permanently separated from his spouses and children. The threats of the High King and the Moonlight Guardian are ever-present as Iefyr gathers his allies and follows them into one of the most dangerous places in Bacra—the deep labyrinth of the Underground.
Courtney M. Privett is the author of The Malora Octet, Huron, and The Bacra Chronicles. She spent her childhood in rural northeastern Michigan and graduated from the University of Missouri-Rolla (now Missouri University of Science and Technology) in 2005 with a degree in ceramic engineering. She lives in Washington with her husband, three young children, and three useless cats. In addition to being a writer, she is an accidental artist, a classical percussionist, a former analytical chemist, and a vivid dreamer who has both auditory-tactile synesthesia and narcolepsy.