Spirited young Fer travels through the Way to a magical world in which beings part human and part animal serve an evil ruler known as the Lady, and where she hopes to learn about her long-lost parents and her own identitiy.

A young thief is drawn into a life of magic and adventure after picking the pocket of the powerful wizard Nevery Flinglas, who has returned from exile to attempt to reverse the troubling decline of magic in Wellmet City.

"Fer, the Lady of the Summerlands trusted the Lords and Ladies of her world to fulfill their oaths by removing their glamories, but their pledges have gone forsworn, and now the consequences of their broken promises are ravaging the land and it's up to Fer to restore peace before it's too late"--

"Young Wizard's apprentice Connwaer disguises himself as a chimney swift in order to identify who has been stealing the locus stones in Wellmet"--