In this fantastical tale, Calwyn leaves her comfortable life among the priestesses of Anataris to journey with her new friend, Darrow, to the cities of the golden stone in order to fight the evil Samis who is determined to become the Emperor of Tremaris at all cost.

Calwyn, a young priestess of ice magic, or "chantment," joins other chanters with different magical skills to fight a sorcerer who wants to claim all their powers for his own.

Through the clamor and din of Potter-wannabes comes the clear, true voice of a wonderful new writer, using the language of fantasy and music to tell her thrilling tale.

Calwyn has lived all her life behind the high ice-wall that guards the sisters of Antaris from the world of Tremaris. The sisters practice ice chantment -- one of the Nine Powers of chantment, a form of magic worked through music. But when Calwyn finds an Outlander man fallen, wounded, through the wall, she is drawn to him ... and drawn into a wondrous, dangerous adventure that takes her outside the wall and to the limits of her own powers, as she, the Outlander Darrow, and others unite to defeat the sorcerer Samis, who seeks to claim all Nine Powers and become the Singer of All Songs.