A reluctant heir. An insidious power. What is privilege when his own magic threatens to take him under? Meran Durante is distraught. An unwilling heir to a bitter and critical father, the young Durante now fears he is also the beneficiary of the oft anticipated, seldom true, seer-sight that has flickered through his mother's family for centuries. Nightly, a single tragic spectre fills his dreams, driving him to the edge of sanity, until...