Publisher's Synopsis
As Royal Mage to King Walis Conchobar of Lir, Simon Baloshian lived in the rarified heights of the Magi Order. Food, drink, companionship, all were his. Until the King sent him on a mission with his Elite Guard to slay the Keep Holder of Galinas Keep, seen by the Royal Seer as the King's Doom. Amergin's quick death left his infant son, Merrill, now Keep Holder and subject to that same decree. Simon's efforts to save the boy leave only him, the babe, and his mother, Venedocia, alive in the Keep. Before he can escape the Kingdom, Simon's caught by his fellow Magi, marked as an oathbreaker for his betrayal of the King, and set loose in a world that hates and ostracizes oathbreakers, cut off from his powers. To access that magic again would now kill him, leaving him dependent on skills he'd never had to cultivate to survive.
