Shawn P. Cormier

Ilien Woodhill has lived the sheltered life of a normal boy from a small nowhere town. His biggest worry is the pair of bullies who wage a relentless battle to break his spirit. All that changes when the wizard, Gallund, comes to stay at the house.

Young Ilien knows nothing of the dark tales told around late-night fires or of the legendary Nomadin wizards and the prophesy that haunts them. But all that is soon to change....

Fleeing the Nomadin, Ilien seeks aid from the last person he ever thought would give it. For his father, Gallund, is held prisoner by an enemy immune to Nomadin magic....

Transported to a cursed land, Ilien must seek and destroy the one thing that can never be destroyed. His only hope lies with a horribly deformed child he unknowingly maimed, and a mystical woman whose past is secretly entwined with his....