"Lesley Smith is a new star on the horizon" - Michael Bunker, author of Pennsylvania. "A grand science fiction fable in the tradition of Herbert's Dune and Martin's Game of Thrones." - Nick Cole, author of The Wasteland Saga. Deep in an ancient desert, a young potter is about to begin her latest-and final-commission as midsummer burns around her. Trouble is coming with the wind, a storm which will take millennia to blow itself out and will affect a line of seers down through the ages. Blinded and alone, tortured and broken, Kia must rise to her destiny as High Oracle and lead her people, or fail and see a great civilisation begin to collapse around her before the apocalypse has even begun. Trace the origins of a cataclysm in the prequel to the breath-taking new trilogy. The Changing of the Sun is coming and the whispers in the desert are growing louder by the day ...