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.

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...

Maybe it's me.Do I have too many expectations?Maybe I'm too assertive or not assertive enough. Am I meant to be — alone?They always seem interested. Until they're not. So many mixed signals. What didn't I see?Make me feel like I'm the crazy one, the needy one, the troubled one.I know what I want and what I don't.It shouldn't be this hard, this hurtful, this cruel.A memoir written in poetic verse and the second collection in the Fragil...

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.

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.

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...

He says I'm too much, too old, too crazy and too bold — for my own good. Makes me feel like I'm not enough.I try to be more, give more, do more. Make myself less noticeable as I silence my desires, my goals, my dreams, and the holes — inside my heart.It must be my fault. What am I doing wrong? What do I not see? Why can't I just be — me?What happened? This all played out so differently in my mind.The signs were there, weren't they? How could I be so blind to...

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.