Falion’s blind adherence to duty and honor and a curse that prevents him from ever touching another, isolate the half-blood in the backwater human village to which he was banished; but when undertaking a quest to avenge a murdered boy and rescue his lord’s daughter allows him to return home to his beloved Lumiden, city of the immortals, the tangle of lies and deceptions he uncovers shatters his ideals and forces him to sacrifice his true love, his honor, and everything he thought was sacred to save the life of his mortal enemy to avert a war that could devastate his world…and others.