The universe unfolds like the delicate petals of a flower in a lush meadow of a million blooms - each one a different story. Raen Caleb's story unfolds here in three parts. He must find then destroy a weapon of such power that it need not even be wielded to corrupt a man. What the stranger in the prison at Stoneisle House knows of this and how he has influenced Lord Stoneisle himself to send Caleb on his perilous mission nobody knows.