Synopsis: From the back cover of the DAW first edition: "Heir to a prophecy as ancient as his race - Aiden, only child of Brennan and Aileen, and the grandson of Niall, is heir to the Lion Throne of Homana and inheritor too of a prophecy carried down through the generations and finally on the verge of fulfillment. But will Aidan - driven as he is by strange visions and portents - prove the weak link in the ages old prophecy, the Cheysuli who fails to achieve his foretold destiny. For as Aiden prepares to set out for Erinn to claim his betrothed, he will become the focus of forces out of legend, visited by the ghosts of long-dead kinsmen, and by the Hunter, a mysterious being who may be a Cheysuli god incarnate. Commanded by the Hunter to undertake a quest to claim a series of "god-given" golden links, Aiden will find himself challenged by the Cheysuli's most deadly foe, Lochiel, the son of Strahan, who will use every trick of Ihlini sorcery to stop Aiden and destroy the promise of the prophecy once and for all..."