In the quiet villages of the Five Kingdoms, dreams are simply dreams — fleeting whispers that fade with the morning light. But for a blacksmith's son named Cael, the dreams do not fade. They pull him from his bed, send him wandering through forests in the dark, and leave him battered and lost by dawn. They are growing stronger — and he is not the only one who has noticed.

Torn from the only life he has known and joined by Wynn — an orphan whose gifts are the opposite of his own — Cael must journey across the Five Kingdoms toward the Academy on the Isle of Storms. But the path is hunted, the truths they uncover are unsettling, and the bond forged between them may be far more dangerous than anyone will admit.