What's a Fire Mage to do when a drunken warrior is causing trouble in town?
Send him on his way. That's what!
With her Sisters at her side, Agnes isn't worried. After all, one warrior is no match for four mages! She'll burn his breeches if he causes a fuss!
For Thurstan's part, he just wants to drink and forget, and around these parts they make their cider good and strong!
Trust his luck that his evening should be interrupted by this dark sorceress! 
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But on this night other strange things are afoot . . .
Forced together by fate, and with a perilous quest thrust upon them, can Agnes and Thurstan work together in spite of themselves?
With a friend's life at stake and a treachery to uncover, the very balance of a war might hang in the balance.
In trying times strange bonds can form, but how can you seize the day when you are haunted by the ghosts of the past?
All may be fair in love and war, but that does not make some decisions any easier . . .