Lumar: a magical little stone with a love of travel and a destiny that launches him on a grand journey of high adventure but also of great peril.Malicia: beautiful, mercurial, evil. A powerful young sorceress from the village of Kindi who is obsessed with darkness and her own sinister ambitions.Trapper: Malicia's cat and unwilling companion. He is privy to her dark intentions and knows all her secrets.The destinies of these three entwine in unexpected ways and weave a web of intrigue and struggle that enmeshes them all. As the struggle intensifies and becomes more menacing, the fate of each and also that of Kindi and all its inhabitants hangs in the balance.