From her birth, Tacenda carried a blessing and a curse. Endowed with powerful protective magic of unknown origin, she protected her family and friends for fifteen years from countless hardships and horrors that regularly befell their small village in the province of Kessig. But one night, for some unknown reason, the sacred Song of Protection failed her. Wanting revenge on the man she believed to be responsible for the failure that led to the destruction of everything she loved, Tacenda infiltrates the estate of a local nobleman known for his connections with evil spirits. Here, new secrets are unexpectedly revealed to her... starting with the fact that the owner of the estate turns out to be not “local” at all...