Publisher's Synopsis
A reluctant mage. A kingdom in ruins. To save his realm, one young man must become what he fears most.
No one knows what the mages did. Almost all of them died in the Fall, and the few survivors were hunted down and killed. For a hundred years, the once great mage cities have been left empty and abandoned by those too afraid to venture inside. Those drawn by their curiosity or in search of power have never returned. There are still those born with magical abilities, but magic is so feared and hated that they know better than to let those abilities be known. Finn knows magic is dangerous. He knows that it destroyed the world he loves, that it causes madness in those who attempt to wield it. He saw firsthand what it did to his best friend. But Finn is finding that you can't escape who you are. On the run from the aftermath of a horrible disaster, hunted and trying to protect his little sister, knowing that he himself is the biggest danger to her, Finn meets an old water mage who will challenge everything he thought was true about the world, and the mage's apprentice, a reckless, beautiful wind mage who will make him question everything he thought he knew about magic. But they aren't looking for him. They're looking for his sister.
