When Tika vanishes, Farn collapses and is close to insanity.The First Daughter of the Dark Realm risks herself to retrieve Farn's mind, knowing that the young Dragon must be reunited with Tika.She believes that Tika is the only one who will be able to defeat the Crazed One.

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.

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.

'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...

The Imperator of Kelshan plans to exterminate all of the clans in the north of his lands. Shivan, Lord of the Dark Realm, asks Tika to help him thwart this plan. She agrees, although they cannot avert a battle where many are lost. Kelshan descends into civil chaos with many of the Confederate states declaring their independence from Kelshan overlordship. Those states are all very small but very determined, and ask Tika and Shivan for their friendship and alliance.

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...

Is there anyone out there for me? Can someone love all that I have to give — all that I am?They make me feel like I'm not good enough. Not pretty enough. Not popular enough. Too different. Too outspoken. Too demanding. Too weird.I refuse to give up. They use me and abuse me but I keep searching and hoping, laying my heart in trusted hands.There is someone just as broken and longing for love and connection like me — for me. Isn't there?Until I find you, m...

Emperor Kasheen is enraged when one of his Crystal fleet is taken by pirates. Tika of Iskallia traces them to a settlement hidden in the land of snow in the far north of Drogoya. She is amazed to find people living in such harsh conditions. She also discovers a man of strange talents quite unlike her own powers. Other lands are in turmoil, including Vagrantia, Strale and Gaharn. Somehow it falls to her to try to settle things down once more.

The TowerThe three children who fled from their mother, Gremara, seem to have found a safe haven in northern Kelshan. Because of the Kelshan military suffering such a heavy defeat at the battle of Ferris Lake and the death of Imperator Jemin, bands of renegade arms men roam the countryside. Tika must find a more secure place for the children where they can grow and learn to survive alone.

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.

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...

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...