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Mairryn knows she will never be a learner at an Abbey. The sheltered daughter of a humble farmer, she dreams only of traveling the realms and learning from experiences, if not from tomes. But now she's married to Earl Magnus Adair, and people are calling her Countess. After her father's recent death and a season of storms that ravaged her family's crops, the Earl's proposal had seemed like the solution to their problems. But from the beginning, he's far from a loving husband, and the nagging mystery of why he'd pursued her so relentlessly is never far from her mind.

Theobald Cirun, a young steward from Forshee, is given the unlikely task of teaching Mairryn to ride horseback. His lessons are one of the few highlights in her mostly-desolate days. Theobald opens her eyes to a whole new world, and soon Mairryn discovers her own connection to the Medium and the shocking answers to the mystery that's plagued her.

But when Earl Magnus's own horrifying secret is revealed, Mairryn must decide if she can make an impossible sacrifice for someone she loves. Someone only she can save. Someone she hasn't met yet...