LIFTING THE VEIL OF YESTERYEAR The young apprentice mage, Pierrette, discovers that the pages in the history books are fading away. Like stars going behind a passing cloud, the events that define the sunny world she loves are winking out one by one, and the shadows of ancient headless Gauls -- souls of the dead whose heads once adorned the pillars of the city of Provence -- are seen by night ... Is the Black Time coming, when evil will reign supreme? The answer lies in the long ago when Provence was wild -- and Pierrette must brave the otherworld to travel there.