The love between mother and child is one of the most powerful forces known to humanity. When her daughter Melissa goes missing, Barbara Bishop-Harding will stop at nothing to find her. Guided by the visions of a psychic detective, she comes to know a terrible truth: her ancestry is connected to a terrible curse. One female child of the Bishop family is destined to be sacrificed-all so that the spirit of the wizard Tobias can walk the face of the earth again. Armed only with love and the crystallized tears of another less sensible mother whose own daughter was lost to the evil sorcerer's crazy dream of immortality, Barbara must face death itself in order to save not only Melissa but her younger daughter as well. In this fantasy novel, a mother must risk everything in a quest to save her daughters from a terrible fate-serving as sacrifices for the spirit of an evil wizard.