Claire Jones has lived a difficult, albeit short, life. Orphaned, abandoned, left to drift through the foster care system, she has developed a hard outer shell designed to keep the world at bay. Yet this strength and resilience is just what the Land needs as it faces a series of devastating storms that cripple a Region and threaten the stability of the entire ecosystem.

Naturally skeptical, instinctively distrustful, Claire is far too young and far too unpredictable for the Protector's of the Land. Yet her ties to their group, and to the mystical dimension they...