After twenty years apart and countless battles, Ashes, a war-weary mercenary is on a journey that will reunite him with the only woman he ever loved. Finding himself forced to take shelter in a cavern from a sudden sandstorm, he is saved from the dark forces that dwell in its depths by a strange mare that is far more than she seems. She sends him and China on a journey of great danger. Ashes finds himself on a quest to seek out Buck, the seemingly immortal fifteen-hundred-year-old king who once ruled Brutus Hay, the great kingdom of legend. Together they must unravel the riddle given to them by her to free the great guardian of the land from a powerful mage and his dark Gods spell and return the land to its former glory. But even with the help of his new friends, can Ashes and Buck free her in time and bring back the Eden-like

"Tell Buck that what once was can be again but first he must seek forgiveness from the one hurt most by his mistakes."