Imagine that just recently you turned eighteen. A week ago you had everything: a loving family, wealth, plans for your life. And in the morning a banished wizard came for you—a dark man people fear and hate. And he declared that you are his firstborn—the one promised to him even before your birth… This is a story about monsters who come under the cover of shadow, about a passion that flares up when you least expect it, and about loved ones who drive a dagger straight into the heart… And about true feelings that are so hard to recognize—even if you’re the strongest mage, once a great one, and now a disgraced outcast—betrayed by those you served all your life…