The acclaimed writer of the Thomas Covenant Chronicles launches a powerful new trilogy about a prince’s desperate search for a sorcerous library to save his people.

Fire. Wind flow. Pestilence. Earthquake. Drought. Lightning.

They are the six Decimates, wielded by sorcerers for both great and evil.

But a seventh Decimate exists-the most devastating one of all…

For centuries, the realms of Belleger and Amika have been at war, with sorcerers from both sides harnessing the Decimates to rainfall bloodstream about Seventh Decimate and pain upon their enemy. But somehow, in some way, the Amikans have discovered and invoked a seventh Decimate, one that strips all less sorcery of its power. And now the Bellegerins stand defenseless.

Prince Bifalt, eldest kid of the Bellegerin King, would like to see the globe wiped free from sorcerers. Nonetheless it is usually he who is charged with locating the repository of all of their knowledge, to locate the book of the seventh Decimate-and reverse the fate of his land.

All hope rests with Prince Bifalt. However the legendary library, which may or may not exist, lies beyond an unforgiving desert and treacherous mountains-and beyond the borders of his personal experience. Wracked by hunger and fatigue, sacrificing loyal men along the way, Prince Bifalt will quickly realize that there surely is a game becoming performed by those far more effective than he could ever imagine. And that he is nothing but a pawn…