Publisher's Synopsis
Destiny beckons, but cold hearts cannot hear....Brendys, the simple son of a Horsemaster, finds himself the inheritor of a great token of power and a destiny of which he wants no part . . . that of the Bearer of the Flame, prophesied harbinger of the Heir of Ascon, High King of Milhavior. Plagued by a curse, evil follows Brendys from his home in the small country of Shalkan to Gildea, a nation besieged by a dark power. There, Brendys must face his destiny and the shadows that threaten to consume him or begin a journey through darkness that could cause him to lose all he holds dear
