Thieves crept into the Hollow one Mid-Summer night and took Penelope Bell. Lovely, dark-eyed Penelope. The Hollow is a peaceful village, a farming backwater among the free cities of the Western Lands, but when a local girl named Penelope Bell is kidnapped from her home in the middle of the night, that peace is shattered. Unwilling to accept the loss of Penelope, a young striker named Gabriel Rain joins Penelope's brother and sister...