Synopsis: Now that Alfreda has begun to learn the Wise Arts, she is needed at home in the village of Sun-Return. The woods around the cabin are alive with poltergeists. Candles light by themselves, and even the rocks dance. There is much work for an apprentice practitioner. But a more dangerous task calls. For a new family has moved to the frontier; a family with strange ambitions and even stranger powers. And chief among them is an enigmatic man known on the Other Side as the Keeper of Souls... (from the back cover of the HarperPrism first edition)