内容简介：
For aeons, the Earthens lived in the security of their underground caverns and tunnels, segregating themselves from the rest of the world and its problems. Their security did not last, for the plague that threatens the world of Siyanda La has driven its iron fist into the ground. The plague is the Drakooni warlord Thay'ravoon, whose insatiable lust for power turned him from his once honorable ways into a bloodthirsty fiend. The Earthens that had faced this threat seldom lived to warn the others. The Thybekuu colony, which is under constant attack, neighbors the oblivious Allaheighn colony. With the arranged marriage between the Allaheighn prince and the Thybekuu princess, the fate of the Allaheighn colony is sealed. As Allaheighn ambassadors Raashir and Mayrah Corova oversee the plans for the royal marriage, neither can see what fate has in store-a fate that will leave their daughter Mairshi orphaned.