Publisher's Synopsis
Six years after magic exploded across the globe, it still spreads like wildfire. The Gifted have won tentative peace through sheer force of numbers, as more and more wake up Gifted each passing day. The survivors of Doctor von Rached's experiments have settled down into communities of their own, forging lives with families of both blood and choice. Lorna Duncan has found fulfillment training others like her, retreating from the outside world with her husband and children.Their peace is not to last, however. Doctor von Rached is out for revenge, and in seeking it releases a creature more dangerous even than he. A thousand years ago it drove magic near to extinction, contained at the end half by chance and the few Gifted who survived.Gifted and normal, friend and foe, the living and the dead - they must cooperate now, or risk the destruction of the entire world.
