It is time to be tested for apprenticeship into a female society that feeds on the life-energy of other beings. The price of initiation leaves Cynderet reeling from loss and the mortal target of the society's very source of power. Cynderet seeks solace within her own mind. Latent telepathic powers begin to blossom while the society seeks to destroy her. In a desperate act she befriends a battle proven lord and his circle of great warriors. She...