"His legs and wrists were manacled and his body was held in tension between those four points. He could not move to stretch or adjust position. The cold hard floor beneath him was unforgiving. The wood behind him was rough and splintered. This room was hell's antechamber." After a vanishing assailant attacks Jonathan Fenton's beloved wife, Jon naively embarks on a quest for revenge. A quest that takes him to the very reaches of reality - and beyond. He begins to discover the incredible story of his origin and his particular significance to the people of his world and others.