Part One: The Army Games had now come together and the winners of the five large armies had to fight each other to prove who was best. Kathryn's two teenage children and her nephews and nieces are off to see the finals on the Somerland Plains, close to the Southern Forest, but Kathryn and her brothers are unable to attend as the Queen of Tralia is not well, surely the royal children are safe. Kathryn defeated Medrith, the Sorcerer of the Dark with the help of her husband and family and peace has reigned in the eighteen years since, but Kathryn waits as Medrith said he would return. And mad men always keep their promises, don't they?
Part Two: The Tragedy at Hakorn. Hakorn Manor was a quiet place in the rich green valley between Orthney and Centra, but one day visitors arrived. In the morning, came the Prince Talaya had always dreamt about. But later a strange storm, an evil so foul that it tears a lovesick girl away from everything she has ever known and makes her seek out the only one that can revenge her of the murders of her family and friends. With the brutally slain bodies fresh in her mind, she begins the most terrifying and desperate journey of her young life to reach her father's oldest friend, the King of Orthney. He will know what to do surely....
The search begins for the killers and the king uses all the resources he has even himself. Can he find them in time with the help of the Tralian Sorceress? Or will the Dark Sorcerer's Daughter have her revenge?