The age of aether still reigns; its pale glow illuminating the land. All bear the mark by aether's extraordinary influence, except the changelings, banished to Einfell, that strange land untouched by the Age of Industry, that lay at England's troubled heart. of Telegraphers brings her son to Invercombe, west of Bristol, she expects him to die there. Though her power and grace are legendary, not even she can halt her son's disease. In desperation she travels to Einfell, to seek favour from one who once trusted her. away from his family responsibilities to the world of nature and to a fisherman's daughter Marion Price. Together they plan to run away, to defy the rule of the Guilds, even to change the world and how it sees itself. for power - nor the very land she professes to love - even if it means plunging England into a long bloody civil war. world, one that is strangely recognizable and yet utterly new, an England made of magic, but set amongst familiar hills and cities.