Publisher's Synopsis
Princess Gabriella of Astadia enjoys nothing more than talking to the stars. They have voices but they do not use words, or at least not in any conventional sense. She never understood how or why this was possible, until one day she receives a visit from Ja-Ded, an unusual wizard from the Distant East. His only possessions are a dirty old cloak and a crooked staff with an unremarkable brown rock dangling at its end. He begins to teach her of Magic she never knew existed, and he hints that the secret to her abilities may have to do with a past life she lived four thousand years earlier. But before he can explain any further, he vanishes in a flash of light.
Gabriella must search for Ja-Ded in a town no one seems to have heard of. Along the way she must confront a witch who would offer her great power, a circle of faery who would trap her in their music for all of time, and an eerie red-eyed shadow creature who whispers creepy chants into her ear late at night. Worst of all, she will have to defeat the Asura, a horrific, six-armed, winged beast who aims to enslave all of human kind by turning their own hatred and lust for violence against them. But in order to succeed against the Asura, Gabriella must first find herself, her true self, before it is too late.....
