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Kindra and Kaye Odion are identical twins, but when Kaye disappears after an attack by a nomadic tribe, Kindra is left with a shattered world of warrior training and a High Priestess who knows Kaye's whereabouts but will not say. An up-and-coming warrior tries to help Kindra through her difficult time while keeping his own dark secrets in the past and his jealous brother from destroying her life further. Kaye, meanwhile, has found her way to the fairytale land of Aleda and the Faye, and begins to learn the bloody secret of Fie Eoin, why her High Priestess will not honor the twin gods, and her own destiny.
It has been six months since Rebecca Morgan was shot to death in front of her husband, Lane, and six year old daughter, Mikayla. Now Lane, a gun-toting knight of Archein, must raise his daughter alone, keep her safe from the men who killed her mother, and keep her from finding out about his relationship with the woman he cheated on Rebecca with.
The world didn't end in fire, nor in ice. Nor in famine, disease, or natural disaster. It didn't end with a great war, nor by the coming of a savior. In the end, the world was washed away inch by inch, foot by foot, until slowly, slyly, the world that had been known was gone and a new world, different from any man had ever known, had been born. A land of water and mountain peaks. A land where farmed goods are worth more than gold. A land that resembles better the Before Ancient city-states than the post-modern Brave New Worlds that had once been predicted. Jetson-esque towers were never raised above the smog of large cities, colonies were not built on the moon or mars, and space travel is novelty of the past--the Ancient past. Now the moon is a thing of wonder and beauty--a predictor of tides and time. It is the Age of Aquarius, the age of the water bearer, the age where everything has been washed and made new. It is the year 998AAq (3010AD) and a new millennium is about to begin.
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