Anoria's teacher and adoptive mother Cordelia Cooper wasn't always the powerful and dangerous wizard we met in Anoria. She started out as a poor village girl who didn't understand her gift of magic. She was given to a half trained charlatan of a book wizard. Rojer Cartwright had no intention of teaching Cordelia any more magic than he had to to get her to make and charge magical items for him. Cordelia found herself Rojer's prisoner as they took ship for the Orclands. On the ship she met and befriended the Brooks family. Using a hidden spellbook, Cordelia tried to learn not just magic but how to read. In the Orclands, Rojer drags Cordelia with him into danger and the real possibility of being sacrificed to an Orc god. But with the help of the Brooks, Cordelia gets an opportunity to go to the College of Wizardry at Kronisburg. There will be still more adventures before she can get down to studying Wizardry. That's just the way it is when you're Born in Magic. The second book in this Prequal series will be along shortly.

With two years left to go at the College of Wizardry in the University of Kronisburg, Cordelia Cooper is called back to Pango Island. The people she left in charge of her case have proved less than trustworthy and the sea elves and the lizardmen were not being treated fairly. Interrupting her studies to go around the world to get back to Pango Island wasn't something she wanted to do but she didn’t have a lot of choice. She had an obligation to the sea elves and the lizardmen. To make things worse, the arrogant and self-righteous Intercessor of Noron, Miguel Cordoba, has decided that it's his duty to accompany her on her "noble quest." From Kronisburg to the Kingdom Isles, from the Kingdom Isles to adventures in Amonrai—and all that's before they even get to Pango Island and find out what's happened to the sea elves. What's happened isn't good and Cordelia and Miguel are honor bound to do something about it. The Governor of Pango Island is about to be Schooled in Magic.