Royce Melborn and Hadrian Blackwater make a profitable living carrying out dangerous assignments for conspiring nobles until they become the unwitting scapegoats in a plot to murder the king. Sentenced to death, they have only one way out...and so begins this epic tale of treachery and adventure, sword fighting and magic, myth and legend. 

An ant has two stomachs. I know this because my neighbor told me. He's incredibly intelligent and we've talked every evening on his porch for--has it only been two months? He's taught me to look at everything differently, and I've learned so much: the nature of time, the value of inquiry, and an understanding that even the impossible can sometimes be true. He's become my mentor, guide and best friend. So you see, I had no other choice but to see if I could kill him.

When ten-year-old Aaron moved from the big city to the country, he thought it was a boring sleepy town. Then he met Jake, a know-it-all farm girl who said his house was haunted. She claimed an Amish boy disappeared without a trace after hearing the wind call his name. Aaron thought she was just trying to scare him...until the night he heard his own name in the wind.