His mother dying, young but brilliant William Tate will do anything to save her. His relentless search for answers leads him down ever more esoteric paths until he finds himself in the rare manuscripts room at the second greatest library on Earth, where deciphering a fantastic book hurls him to a strange new world, EmberEarth, where he fights to return to the mother who needs him, even as he slowly learns to love this new place and his new friends.

EmberEarth slumbers. Almost a millennium has passed since titanic magical forces rocked this world, snuffing out nearly all magic and virtually destroying the globe. Billy finds himself drawn into events which threaten to set those forces free again.

The path forward is complex.

Dragons, long asleep, awaken to the call of a child who will lead them. Bloodletters, dark mages who fuel their magic with pain and suffering and have cultivated their power for centuries hidden behind a veil of fear, begin to move across the world. Even the dead themselves stir to answer a new summons. Billy and his friends must face them all and find a way to victory.