An epic antediluvian fantasy about the struggle between power and free will--and what happens when the chosen make choices of their own.

Ranian is finishing the final hunt of his servitude to a shepherd merchant when a Firesong shudders through his mind. Elva, a Bell Maiden in training, hears it while aiming a knife at an assassin's heart. Imebron's studies are upended when the music passes through his body.

A Firesong of such strength hasn't been heard in millennia, not since the Sundering tore the world into its Five Realms. It can only mean that a danger of corresponding magnitude is approaching . . . if it's not already here.

The godly Authority has given its warning signs, and the Resonant have a decision to make: Will the three strangers abandon everything--including their values--to fulfill their calling to protect the Realms?