When Llesho was seven, the Harn invaded his family's mountain kingdom of Thebin. His guards slaughtered, he was carried off and sold into dlavery, as far as he knew, the sole survivor of his royal family.

At fifthteen, he learned his brothers were still alive and had also been sold to slavery. And so began his quest to earn his freedom and then find and rescue his brothers so that they might win back their kingdom from the cruel, barbaric Harn.

But each sucess led to greater peril, and even with the aid of two of his brothers, the trickster god, a young witch and her even more powerful father, several gladiators, and the Emperor Shou, Llesho was not certain ge'd be able to reach his goal. Not with both the Harn and the evil Master Markko were set on his death, and not when the very gates of heaven seemed to be shut against him.

Only if Llesho could learn thr truth about his mysterious heritage and the powers locked inside him did he stand a chance of saving his people and reopening the pathway between mortals and gods...