Raised in a society where all the decisions are made by the Elders, all of them men, Sentia was barely six summers when she was promised by her father, the Chief Elder, to the young son of his Chief Advisor. But she grew up loving someone else. Now sixteen summers, she is in love with Dhavin, a foundling her father took under his wing and nurtured as his own. However, custom considers him her brother and protector, not joining material, and believes an orphan who cannot prove Acquerian ancestry cannot join with what amounts to royalty. Not used to defying her father, her stepmother or the...

Not for the faint of heart, the horrors of the Castleweaver's exploits lie couched in the intricacies of poetic form. Eldreth is a master weaver. His tapestries adorn the halls and bedchamber walls of the richest and grandest in the surrounding kingdoms. He is also a wizard whose talents over-shadow those of his aging mentor, and Eldreth has turned to the dark arts to exact revenge on those he deems his enemies. Deep in the lower reaches of his castle, his fingers fly across his looms, weaving more than wool and flax and dye into his tapestries, entwining the very souls of his victims in the...