What if, in the course of your everyday life, you walked through an ordinary-looking door and discovered yourself inside a strange tower that stands outside of this world: a tower full of doors, each leading to a different world? From that tower, you could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do nearly anything. The price of admission, however, is your life. Once you join the Center, you can never go back to the life you once knew. Meet the five newest Center recruits: team captain Ronin, a genetically-modified teenage soldier; team vice-captain Calypso Makkarios, orphaned by the very...

TRUST Truman has earned his place on the team, after winning the trust of the two captains. Now the headmaster has decided to use Ronin and Calypso to confront a traumatic incident in Truman's past, one which has raised a wall between Tru and his new team. Can the two team leaders prove to Truman that he can trust his young teammates as much as they now trust him? Meanwhile, a new teammate has been added to their number: Tora Kananeko, of the Tiger Clan on Kaeri Masen. The team saved her at great cost; now she is one of them. But all her life, Tora has been steeped in the enemy's Deep Arts...

Brazen treachery tears apart the Second Kingdom by murder within the royal family. In the north, a new kingdom called Sanctuary proclaims a stolen infant as the rightful Keeper sovereign, while in the south, grief-shattered King Colin and his people begin to heal. As the ensuing years bring rumors of war, and a long-foretold Destroyer arises, two Keepers inherit the task of mending their uncle's broken kingdom. Lucien, the obedient firstborn, and Marcus, the impetuous youngest son, leave family and home to live secretly among the rebels, only to find that the poverty spawned by corrupt...

A new generation of the Keeper royal line is coming to adulthood. Unrest is growing once again in the Second Kingdom, now under the governance of the new Senate. Dakhar leads the Senate as a seer with bornsight, but the only other members so far gathered are Bredin, a genius healer who denies his powerful healing gift, and Magnis, a bard with the gift of heartsight crippled by constant conflict with his beyah, Valeryn's elder daughter Seliyah. One more man in possession of a great gift has been discovered: a strange young man with the rare gift of dreamwalking has appeared in Dakhar's dreams....