Tellurith the head of a great ruling House in Amberlight inexplicably finds a battered outlander left for dead in the streets of the legendary city
- & an oracle reveals that he must not die The man although stripped of his memory may know of a threat to Amberlight's unique possession the motherlodes of the qherrique the pearl-rock that gives their world its most powerful tool Tangled in intrigue insurrection & brutal warfare it will take a cataclysmic upheaval for Tellurith & the stranger to begin to grasp the more-than-human mystery that brought them together