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The first volume in a classic series that follows the adventures of a boy as he struggles to meet growing responsibilities and new challenges while he travels across the many nations of the Dominion. Alec, working as a common laborer in a traveling carnival, survives a violent attack by lacertii, and flees with Natalie into the forest wilderness of the Pale Mountains. When he stumbles into a holy site, he receives the benefit of great powers that have been lost to the society of the Dominion for centuries. Learning to master those powers, learning who to trust, and learning that he must carry out duties and fulfill promises provide the challenges that Alec must face and overcome in the course of this and successing novels, including Volume 2: The Power of Healing, coming in the Fall of 2008.
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