This is the fantastic action-packed, character-driven first novel in a superb new epic-fantasy series. In a world that is in constant shifting, where mountains can change to plains and then to lakes, Talyn is the Hunter for the Caisah, and a wreck of a once-proud person. She has lost her people, the Vaerli, and her soul working for the man who destroyed her people. All unknowing, she carries within her a Kindred, a chaos creature from the centre of the earth that wants to help bring the Vaerli back to power. Little does Talyn know that salvation is looking for her, and it wears the face of gentleness and strength - Finn a teller of tales with his own dreadful secret. Meanwhile, the Hunter's lost brother Byre is searching for his own solution to the terrible curse placed on the Vaerli. He sets forth on a treacherous journey of his own, which will intersect in the most unlikely place with that of Talyn and Finn. The ramifications of this encounter will be felt by all the people in Conhaero, from the lost Vaerli to the Caisah on his throne.