This is the story of the Ringmaker, a woman working to harness the power-hungry will of her Tundin people's Council for the greater good of all, though she bears the stigma of Namelessness (she is a dragon changeling). When she is abducted in a political coup, she becomes the target of a madman, also a dragon changeling, who seeks to unbind the fabric of the world with lost and potent magic. She escapes his prison, but not his psychological torment. On her journey to confront her captor, the Ringmaker meets a fellow traveler who has also suffered losses and who must come to grips with his greatest fear: his father's hidden legacy. Together, they craft a love from loss, and grief, and the Ringmaker unlocks a treasure trove of her own gifts as she comes to terms with her tormentor's villainy, and confronts him in a dream-time landscape for the final harrowing conclusion.