When young Galwaine, a prince of the Tuath of Rayn, helps an old man in trouble, he is set about on a journey that will pit him against his own people, his mother and the very forces of evil itself. In his struggle he finds a friend he would have never expected, a foe he has known his whole life but has never encountered and uncovered a plot to destroy the whole Eire Land all the while discovering that he is the key in saving not only his family, but the entire island as well but at his own peril.