When one guy is brutally murdered and the priest he functions for mortally wounded, Willet Dura, reeve towards the ruler of Bunard, is named to investigate. As he starts to query the dying priest, the man pulls Willet close and screams inside a foreign tongue. After that he dies without another term.

Willet earnings to his job, but the hints to the criminal offense lead to contradictions and questions without answers, and his senses are skewed. People he details appear to have got a subtle change, as though he can divine their deepest thoughts. In a global divided between haves and have-nots, gifted and common, Willet quickly discovers he’s been handed down the rarest gift of all-a gift that’s not likely to exist.

Right now Willet must pursue the murderer still over the loose in Bunard even while he’s pulled into a harmful conflict that threatens not only his city, but his entire world-a issue which will force him to come to terms with his inability to keep in mind how he escaped the Darkwater Forest and what happened to him inside it.