For centuries the all-powerful Guild of Magicians recruited apprentices—future uncrowned kings of this land—only from the children of the noblest families, because the Law of Magic said that the Gift had never yet fallen to common-born offspring. But one day everything changed. Because a poor street thief, Sonea, is the bearer of the great Gift of “wild magic”—unequaled. A Gift that forced the best masters of magic to accept her, powerless and rootless, among the Apprentices of the Guild. But her new high position brings her not only honor, but also new danger. After all, now she is the perfect target for the cruel Dark Magician Akkarin, who has long dreamed of subjugating her…