Brooklyn's life was going just the way it should. She discovered she had the ability to learn to be a healer and immediately began apprenticeship with her father. She started by healing animals and was still valued for that. Through years of training she was becoming a talented healer in her own right, and the people of the village had become comfortable with her responding to their healer requests. Brooklyn responds to a request for healing on the wrong side of the border with the Xeros mountains which are jealously guarded by sorcerers. When a sorceress feels her calling the power, she is offered an apprenticeship in exchange for the lives of the young man she had healed and his father. She is soon drawn into a world of mystery and intrigue that she never imagined could exist.