'Princess Mazzen is faced with the imminent destruction of not onlyClemnos but the whole world of which Clemnos is but a small part. TheMage Tika returns to try to protect the place where she was born andwhere she once lived. Long-forgotten gods agree to return at herrequest to pit their power against the forces within the very earthitself. The earth is being attacked by external pressures and tries torip itself apart to rid itself of the pressures...

It is a world of shattered continents of mostly uninhabited islands,strewn across wild seas. One larger island, Clemnos, has regained ahigher lever of civilization once more, but civil war threatens toerupt, led by a man who wants all women banished from public life andpublic view. Princess Mazzen, of the Ruling House of Ostersay. mustfight for equality for all the people of Clemnos.Dragons, long dismissed as children's fanciful tales, return to o...

Tika is dragged into an uprising in Strale. The lords who plan to take power from King Troman and his government, are all from houses who wish things to return to the ways they've always known and enjoyed. They want a return to slavery and to their unlimited and uncriticised ways of living at the expense of all others. They are also determined to regain the lands and coin that King Troman had relieved them of in the last few years. Tika chooses to aid the lords who try to uphold the new fr...

In the face of increasing troubles in the world, Tika and her companions discover Vagrantia, the hidden community of once-powerful magic wielders.After centuries of seclusion, the Vagrantian leader, Thryssa, has to decide whether to allow her people to participate in the affairs of the outside world.

One thousand years after the Mage Tika defeated the evil in the Kelshan lands, and Jemin was restored as Imperator, another power has gradually evolved. Tilliat Kranch believes herself to be no more than a Trader's daughter, but finds she is the Mage Foretold by Tika.Helped on her way by both people and Dragons, Tilliat discovers strange truths about herself and her heritage. Her awakening power causes her to dreamlink with her previously unknown twin brother, Tetsura Crown Prince ...

Leaving Mim in control in the Northern Stronghold, Tika travels west to the lands where she was born a slave. She is searching for a mysterious being called Namolos.Meanwhile, in the lands of Drogoya, evil is growing rapidly with all too few people able to resist its force.

Spring 1816. Grace Harper, twenty five years old, and with no family, is governess to four orphans, the young Earl of Rapley, Matthew and his three even younger sisters. Four years earlier she was employed indirectly by the children's uncle, Lord David Shalham, their guardian, who had spent the last thirteen years in India following a scandal in England for which he was wrongly accused.When just eighteen, Matthew and a sister aged sixteen, decide to move from their settled home in r...

When the air mage, Penda is farseeking over the ocean south of Iskallia,he is shocked to encounter another mind. And even more shocked as herecognises it as a Dragon mind. The Iskallian Dragon, Brin, Impetuouslyrushes off to trace this mind and discovers an island, long separatedfrom the rest of the world. Lady Tika decides she has to travel the sameroute to investigate the information Brin brings back on his return.While they are away, reports rea...

While still seeking Namolos, Tika and her company learn that an ancient evil, believed to have been safely neutralised a thousand years before, is now beginning to stir.With the help of a mage councillor, the evil strengthens and comes close to gaining its freedom.Tika has to combat this evil rather than continue her search for Namolos, whose trail grows ever fainter.

Endis begins what he believes is his training to become a Seer. The Augur surprises him by teaching him an enormous amount of the world's history but he struggles to understand where she's leading him or who she actually is. Tika discovers serious trouble arising in an important town in the east of Kelshan and offers her help according to her treaty with Kelshan. She also realises Youki is very far from what she'd assumed her to be. Tika tries to help Lord Shivan of the Dark Realm find his...

Tika is faced with ever worsening problems in trying to locate the Splintered Kingdom.Increasingly she despairs of ever reaching the end of this chain of events, and of finding a safe haven for herself and her friends.

While the Asatarian boy, Endis, struggles to understand how his life must change as he learns the ways of a Seer, Tika too must learn some lessons. Reluctantly, she is forced to face the fact that she has made certain decisions for very personal but very misguided reasons. She procrastinates until finally, another takes action, telling her it is on her behalf. Tika is angry and saddened, but also accepts the whole sequence of events was due to her own mistakes.