After her sister, Dryad haunts her from beyond the grave for three long and torturous years, Sarabande undertakes a dangerous journey into the past- to either raise her cruel sister from the dead, ending the torment...or to take her place in the safe darkness of the earth.Sarabande leaves the mountains of Montana for the cornfields of Illinois on a black horse to seek help from Robert Adams, the once powerful Sun Singer, in spite of Gem's prophecy of shame. One man tries to kill her alongside a deserted prairie road...one tries to save her with ancient wisdom... and Robert tries to send her away.Even if she persuades Robert to bring the remnants of his magic to Dryad's shallow grave, the desperate man who follows them desires the Rowan staff for ill intent... and the malicious sister who awaits their arrival desires much more than a mere return to life.