Celah is the first female born to her family in 520 years and the target of elaborate plan by time travelers needing her help to save their race. Born in the mid-1800s, her ancestors participated in a king's assassination in 1341, bringing upon them a curse lasting twenty-four generations. The Ambassadors from the alien planet oversee the project and work with Celah in the rearing of her gifted son, Aerwyn, the only one who can fulfill the requirements of their dying race. The project is threatened when a notorious drifter named Malvado, and his rogue band of shape shifters, appears on the...