When Lerence is struck in the head by a horse and seems dead for over an hour, before suddenly waking up, his step-sister Tyna is sure that it is no longer Lerence who inhabits his body. When she falls in love with this new man, she hopes she's right. Larrina wakes one night dreaming of her dead lover, Alanar. Larrina is Kinel, the last of her race and one of the few who can manipulate ka directly. She doesn't know how, but she is sure Alanar is still alive and she will risk even the revolution against the Katar to find him. Tsom, the half-breed Kinel who lost his first love in the revolution, now fears that Larrina will abandon him for the spirit of a man he thought he killed.