Arriving on the Isle of Mid to rid herself of an ancient stone and the power it possesses, Raine Banares must deal with mages who want her dead and suspicious goblins while trying to find out why Mid's best student spell-singers are disappearing.

While searching for the specters of six evil mages who escaped the Saghred, a powerful soul-stealing stone, seeker Raine Barnes finds the tables turned when one of the escapees regenerates his body and begins hunting her.

"My name is Raine Benares-and it sucks to be me right now. I'm a seeker who managed to "find" the Saghred, a soul-stealing stone that gave me unlimited power I never asked for or wanted. Now I've managed to lose the rock-and the magic it gave me-to a power-hungry goblin dark mage whose main goals are my death and world domination. All we need to do is destroy the Saghred, kill the mage, and put a renegade goblin prince on the throne. Did I mention...