A chance encounter. A dangerous power. And a betrayal beyond imagining...

Órlaith's kept her magic a secret her whole life, fearful of the fate that befalls the spellweavers - the unlucky few with powerful enough magic to catch the wrong person's attention.

Until she - literally - runs into Leolin. He's a spellweaver just like her - except the magehunters already caught him. And they want him back.

When Órlaith's whole world burns down around her, the two of them flee to the near-mythical City, said to be the only place in the realm where spellweavers can live without fear.

But who is the mysterious Gwydion, who seems determined to stop them from reaching the City? And is the City everything it seems to be - or is there something else hiding beneath its shimmering towers?

Written as part of the Inkfort Publishing Derby 2022.