Orphaned and left in the less-than-kindly care of her step-family, there was the only one joy in Amara's life - looking and wondering about the Whispered West. So when a mysterious stranger arrives and announces he is taking Amara to the very place she has been drawn to all her life, she is only too willing to go. But life in the Westerlands is not the dream Amara believed it would be. A growing shadow is creeping across Myrrador, and already the Servants of Evil are answering its call, making the journey to Lunar Falls all the more perilous, and even there, among the Elves, there is no escaping the past. For the greatest secret, the truth about who Amara really is, cannot be hidden forever, and in a land where in the blink of an eye allies can become enemies and friend turned to foe, the revelation could alter not just Amara's future, but that of Myrrador itself.