Miriam DuFour has been cheated on, tossed out of cooking school, and is about to lose her apartment. Her only saving grace is a small café she inherits in the small town of Achewillow. A place where strange and dangerous things live.
In the aftermath of a small-town massacre, Venus McKenzie and her friends each try to deal with the fallout in their own way, not knowing that they are being pulled in the same direction: towards the pulpit of the Church of the Sandmen.
A world where magic is the stuff of fairytales and science and technology are gospel truth, the people of Magnami find themselves needing the return of the 13 Knights of Thaelion. It begins with the quest of young Perilea into a place time forgot.
