The world of the Islands, whose people NEVER mix with each other... A world of tiny kingdoms that endlessly enter into alliances and wage wars... A world in which from time immemorial there have been TWO magical schools - Silv, who believe that witchcraft has the right to be ONLY light, and Dun professing the dark side of magic. Until recently, their adherents believed that a bad peace is better than a good quarrel... But now the Great Master of Dun-magic Mordred has reigned on the distant island of Gortan, dreaming of subjugating ALL ISLANDS to his power, and on the Middle Archipelago the powerful magicians who call themselves Guardians - and also dream of HIGH POWER. As long as Mordred is alive, as long as the Guardians are powerful, there will be no peace on the Islands. But can the mercenary Blaze, who has the gift of resisting magic, and her companions - the sorceress princess and the damned exile - killer - to fight both the power of Light and the power of Darkness at once?