In the previous book, Lana, Max, Eddie, Arlys, Fred, Chuck, Jordan, Katie and the twins, and Rachael find their way to a place in Virginia that they decide to create a town out of with the help of others as they come. They name the place New Hope. They find they still have to deal with Raiders who are against magical folk and the Purifiers who believe God is against the magical and that they must be destroyed. Then there is the military who are still making sweeps picking up magical and immunes to experiment on. But they've built something strong at New Hope and people feel protected until the night of July 4th when Max's brother Eric and his girlfriend Allegra show up and use their powers to destroy and kill. Max is killed in the attack trying to protect Lana who is pregnant. Lana, knowing that her child is important to the cause and must survive and not wanting to bring harm to New Hope, leaves that night until she meets a man named Simon who takes her in and the two fall in love as he delivers her daughter, Fallon Swift, named after the two men who will be her fathers, Max Fallon who fathered her and Simon Swift who would raise her.
Simon and Lana would go on and have three boys, Collin, Taylor, and Eddie. Taylor and Eddie would have magical abilities. Soon, though, it would be Fallon's thirteenth birthday and it would be time for her to go away to train with Mallick, the mysterious elf, who was born with that one purpose. For two years she will train will Mallick and it will be hard. He will offer her an indoor bathroom if she completes three tasks: get the apple from the owl Taibhse, get the golden collar from the wolf Faol Ban, and find the horse Laoch with the golden saddle. Each of these a seemingly impossible task, but ones that she figures out. Before the two years will have come to a close, she will have found the Book of Spells and taken the knowledge into herself and lifted the shield and sword. But she is not yet ready to lead and stays on to train a while longer until her two years are up before going home.
Once home she talks to her parents and they train the boys, but that isn't enough. She must start building her army and with the help from her dad she goes through the town and begins a training program. Soon, though, she must leave and begin training programs throughout the land on the way to New Hope in order to begin at New Hope what was started so long ago.
She has a crystal ball that she can see things in and step through and go to places via it. When she sees during her training that the New Hope rescue team, who are out to rescue magicals from a government lab, is walking into a trap she steps through and warns them and offers an alternative plan and helps them with it. It is here that she finally meets Duncan, one of the twins, whom she has been dreaming about and his twin Tonia, two people who will be important to her in the future in helping her.
This book is just as good as the first book. Though, you really don't see much of the bad side of things. You certainly don't see their viewpoint, which I'm not sure how I feel about that. On the one hand, you have the element of surprise and this book is about rooting for the good, but on the other hand, you don't understand the bad guys as well as you could. The Purify Warriors are an example of that. The characters are great and Fallon lives up to the promise of being the One as one who doesn't do things right all the time and mistakenly believes that romance should not be a part of her life. We all know her and Duncan are meant to be together. It's just a matter of time. But this isn't a romance novel. It's a fantasy novel that happens to be written by one of the most famous romance novelists of all time. It is a complete departure for Roberts and I am so enjoying it. This is a fabulous book and I give it my highest rating five out of five stars.
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