Warrior guardian Daen Mallaur is from Luxatra, a land where people are gifted with special abilities, swords are used to administer justice, and rulers must never show weakness. Sent to the world of shadows, his mission is to help a woman whose identity he does not know. And so his journey begins: a strange world, almost no memory of his mission, and ... no way home? This is part 1 of the fantasy epic The Gifted. The other titles are and are due out in 2013: The Channel, (The Gifted book 2) The Dark Healer, (The Gifted book 3) The Keeper, (The Gifted book 4)