Leading the simple life of a healer, Arianna is satisfied with her place in the world. Until the day a stranger arrives from the east to change her world forever. Unprepared for events she could not have anticipated, she can only try to survive what is to come. Damuk, a powerful eastern mage, is used to being in control. Until he meets a petite blond girl from the west. Drawn to her in a way he could not have imagined, he soon finds himself caught in her spell. As a dark threat rises from an unexpected source, the two must come together to stop a war that should never had started. The only hope for their future may be in the secrets of the past. Can a peasant girl, a mage, and a forced romance really turn the tide of war?