Tilliat Kranch has been having strange dreams. Her father disappeared on a trading trip five years before, and during that time Tilliat's dreams have grown ever more vivid. Tilliat's city of Kelshan is collapsing into lawlessness and she flees eastward far across the country. The man who guides her and her uncle feeds her poison but to her amazement a Dragon helps her and Uncle Davin escape. Within the Dragon Realm, Tilliat learns much more of her destiny and the meaning of her dreams. She faces many dangers as she confronts a remnant of the evil that the great Mage Tika fought against, one thousand years before.