Shaya Wolff, half-breed Areathian chosen and champion of Nerodai, was rejected by the village she grew up in and the man she loved. Believed to be a demon, Shaya lives a life of obscurity and loneliness, until one little girlas illness forces her to reveal her secret and helps her recapture the love she thought forever lost. Now, chosen by the ancients to finish what they started, Shaya must leave behind all that she knows and loves for an island far from home. There she must train hard and accept all that she is in order to defeat an evil a thousand years old and fulfill a destiny bigger than herself.