"Do you feel it, Wolf? Do you feel as though life is about to completely change? As though there's no way to go back to the way things were?"I do, Master, and it scares me."Shenna's skin prickled. Wolf had never been afraid of anything in his life. In this first of two gripping, epic fantasy novels, Shenna, a young thief and outlaw on the verge of womanhood, lives a lonely, haunted existence on the fringes of society. Her only companion is a wolf that never leaves her side. He is all that remains of a life and an innocence that was savagely stripped from her. When one day Shenna impulsively rescues a group of strangers from certain death, she is seriously wounded for her trouble. Now in her debt, the mysterious group nurses Shenna back to health. Carrying far too many secrets and bent on a mission they will not divulge, they at least offer Shenna and Wolf protection until Shenna is well enough to leave them. Though her injury forces her to stay for a while, Shenna knows that remaining too long with the group is a deadly option, for she too hides a great secret. Its discovery will mean her death. Shenna is determined to run back to the life of a thief and to safety, but fate intervenes, and she and Wolf find themselves swept along a dark and treacherous journey. A journey that will challenge everything the two believe as it sends their world to the brink of total destruction. One young woman with an extraordinary ability. Eight strangers on a perilous mission. Rumours of dark time unlike any that has gone before. And a climax of a thousand years of secrets, bloodshed and lies. Get ready for a surprising, stirring and spellbinding journey that will get its hooks into you from the first page and won't let go until the very end.