There is an ancient legend in the memories of the humans of Niwengeard,
that a time will come when Darkness will fall upon the kingdoms of
Earde and one will rise who threatens all species. It has been foretold
that at this time, a Gifted human child possessing the powers of the
magical races – the empyreals – will be born to lead a revolution against
the Darkness. But this memory is hazy, like the memories of the
beginning of time, of the Creators, of the First and Second
Destructions, and even of the empyreal races who share the humans'
world. So when a fairy named Raedan appears before fourteen-year-old
Lisandra Ackart and tells her that the time of the Third Destruction
has begun and that she is the Gifted One, she doesn't believe him.
When
a series of strange events leaves her hundreds of miles from home,
Lisandra is thrust unwillingly into the heart of an epic struggle that
has spanned millennia, a conflict between the races of the Dark and the
races of the Light. Now that struggle is nearing its end, and Lisandra
must find the twenty-three Keepers of the ancient Prophecy, each of
whom holds a single piece of the key to saving Earde from the Darkness.
But first she must find a way to stop the Dark Queen, Lucifaera – who
the Light Ones believe is behind the sudden disappearance of thousands
of fairies – and her mysterious hexagonal charm.
