Fire Borne

Mericsland is about to fall. Breea charges her army into the whirling heart of the war to save Carsythe, the lone city holding back the Kaul invasion. With Breea are three song weavers, young children who know even less than she of the ways of the essence. Together they must learn to blend essence and weave in unison or see their souls consumed by the most powerful enemy Breea has faced yet.

Even as Breea's army hardens into a living spear, her enemies multiply. She finds that something more than the strength of her heart and the essence within her is needed if she and the children are to survive—she needs to learn how to weave in the old way. And away to the east, deep within Kaul held territory come stories of a band of men who fight with fire...