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Their race was far older than humankind, and few mortals now believed they'd ever existed. Yet they still saw the patterns of the past, present, and future. And in the patterns they saw two mortals who, touched by magic, might make all the difference in an age of papal wars and fallen kingdoms.
Christopher, Baron of Aurverelle, had returned from the Crusades a broken man. Vanessa, a young peasant girl gifted - or cursed - with the Sight, had been sent by her parents to seek employment in the Free Towns that bordered Christopher's lands. When Christopher rescued Vanessa from almost certain death, it forged a bond between the two and drew the Elven folk to heal them of both physical and emotional wounds. And the bond thus forged between mortals and Elvenkind would soon be tested. For when war threatened the realm, only the combined power of sword and spell offered any hope for defeating their foe...