'These are the words that span lives over thousands of years: the voices that have traveled so very far, from continents away, to end in a singular point within the weighted pages in my hands. I am but a small piece of that history..., a remnant of something much greater, whose value is no more than its own self-worth. Those who came before, who gave birth to me and those who gave birth to the many generations before my own, are but legend now. They were a people who flourished and gave the world the greatest societies ever known; their mark is forever scarred upon the earth, embedded within the landscape and in the darkest memories of man. This is all that is left, bound forever in the memory of its last child.' The last of a people dating back before the beginning of time, coveted by some, hunted by others - this is the story of young Gretel. Beyond beauty and imagination we follow the lives of young Gretel and her brother, as her only daughter relives their past through a forgotten diary. A story of the love and connection between brother and sister, they have only each other within a world filled with deceit and those who wish to invoke revenge for their people's history..., and those who want to discover the secrets of the powers they possess. Book One begins with the story of Gretel, the last child born of a people who walked the deserts of the earth before the beginning of time, as she sets off in search of those still alive and in hiding for her own survival and for the very survival of the Children of the Sun. This is the Revised First Edition.