Just as a few stones can give birth to a mountain avalanche, so a war that will last decades was born from a handful of unkind words, echoing in the fates of more than one generation.
The two daughters of the noble Freyvid Hnimo—Ingvilda and Hjordis—are endowed with wonderful abilities, but they use them differently. Many trials await Ingvilda and her beloved Khrodmar when their tribes are torn apart by war.
And Hjordis’s gift will take her beyond the human world and place her under the power of a giant who lives near the ancient sanctuary—Standing Stones.