Book One of the Sacred Scrolls saga. "From humble beginnings the scourge shall spring. From lowest man will come Man's doom. A drought, a plague, a childless king, only The One can enter this tomb." Dark-cloaked men line the passage in the bowels of Citadel Adbar, each holding a single candle and stomping out the meter of their reverential chant. But when the vault to their most prized artifact is opened, the gasp that echoes through the tunnels of the fortress holds terrifying implications for the entire kingdom of Coleraine: the Sacred Scrolls have been stolen. For Aurora Daelin, daughter of the Elvish Jarl, the timing could not be worse. The terrible prophecy contained in the Scrolls is coming true; three of the five precipitating events have already occurred. Now a small band of companions, brought together by chance and treachery, must learn what happened to the Scrolls and try to stop the prophecy from destroying their world.