The much-anticipated third installment in Card’s NY Times bestselling Mithermages series

Danny North may be the initial Gate Mage to become born on the planet in nearly two thousand years, or at least the first ever to survive and state his power, for families of Westil in exile on the planet have a treaty that requires the death of any suspected Gate Mage. The wars between your families had been terrible, until finally they realized it was their own survival in question. But a Gate Mage, person who could build a about Gatefather Great Gate back again to Westil, would provide his own family a terrible benefit over all the others and reignite the wars. So that it was made the decision that each of them had to perish. And if the families didn’t eliminate them, the Gate Thief would-that secret mage who demolished every Great Gate, combined with the Gate Mage who made it, before it could be opened between Globe and Westil.

But Danny survived. And Danny battled the Gate Thief-and gained.

What he didn’t know at that time was that the Gate Thief had a good reason for closing the Great Gates-and Danny has fallen in to the power of that great foe of both Globe and Westil.