Within a hidden drawer in a dusty old trunk stored in the attic, seventeen year old Jesse finds her long lost grandmother's diary. The pages reveal Gabriel's adventure from thirty years earlier as she travels through a gate to a land of magic where dragons communicate telepathically and fantastic creatures strive to restore harmony between their realms. Gabriel is visited by a handsome young warrior who tells her she is destined to save his land from corruption. He persuades her to set aside her life as a homemaker and travel with him through the lightning gate to Risen to become their next Master Sorceress. Gabriel becomes deeply involved with the people and creatures of Risen as she attempts to defeat the corrupt sorcerer who plans to dominate all. As Jesse reads about her grandmother's journey, she encounters a personal crisis of her own and must leave home with her golden retriever and elude the police as she travels to the lightning gate. On the way she discovers that her own destiny is entwined with her grandmother's in ways that both alarm and thrill her. "The Legacy" is the exciting beginning to the Freecurrent series.