Seventeen-year-old Jenna led a peaceful life until the night she picks up a strangely alluring stone. She holds the Lámh Shábhála, the master stone of legend which could reawaken all the other stones of power and bring magic back to the world.

Nearly two decades after Jenna became First Holder, her daughter Meriel finds herself thrust into the hands of her mother's enemies. Suddenly she has become a pawn in a deadly game where lives are worth far less than the cloch na thintr,̕ the special stones through which all magical power is channeled. Will her mother trade everything she has fought for-and so many have died for-to save Meriel's life. Or will Meriel become a helpless sacrifice in...