Michael, warrior prince of the kingdom of Artalland, takes a daring chance on the battlefield, saving his men and winning the field for his army, but all he has worked for is swept away when he is suddenly discharged from the army by his father for his heroic actions. Reeling from his humiliation and with the unwelcome aid of a disgraced mage, Michael begins to find the threads of betrayal in his father's inner circle and sets about to cut them.

But Michael is a soldier, not a politician, and the machinations of his brother Johan and the enigmatic mage Queen Alanrae of rival kingdom Ferralla may prove to be far deadlier than a battle...

Needle Ash is a new high fantasy story taking cues from contemporary favorites like Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, set in a world where magic is drawn from the remnants of creation and the realm of the Fay, where dreams and reality, concept and form, image and feeling, are one and the same.