Publisher's Synopsis
All traces of the once shining realm of Ajanel are about to be annihilated forever, until the kingdom's last guardian blade is found in the hands of a sixteen year old girl.
When an idealistic boy steals a celestium sword and gives it to sixteen-year-old Jessica Halloran, he doesn't realize he has broken a centuries-old bloodsworn truce between Aventar's most ancient and ruthless guilds. Mercenaries, assassins and hideous creatures emerge from every depraved and unclean place across the corrupted land seeking to claim Dawnsong for themselves.
The long dormant Champion Skyblade's magic inexplicably responds to the girl, inspiring one guardian of the truce to intercede to protect Jessica's life. The Vicereine of Kulnas knows such an act is an open declaration of war that threatens to plunge the seven kingdoms into chaos, but she envisions a different future.
Jessica learns Dawnsong is most powerful when she is truthful and acts honorably. Her compassion becomes healing. Her joyful personality becomes a golden glow that follows her everywhere and her kindness becomes a blessing that strengthens others. Even learned scribes and arcanists cannot explain it.
Now, after the discovery of a hidden map to a place called the Palace in the Sky, Jessica and her friends find themselves in a race to rescue the other seven Ajan weapons before Lord Dane and his vile Cryptics discover and destroy them!
