_'Till the Tower falls, Till the Great Bell calls..._ Derry remembers nothing before his capture by the vicious sea raider, Cram. Life as Cram's poison taster is all he know., and books are his only friends. The one clue to his past is that he was taken along with others fleeing the kingdom of True Landovel. Then a mysterious traveller comes to Cram's Rock, pursued by sinister El - strange beings Derry had thought were myths. The coded journal she leaves behind is vitally important - and the secrets it holds will change everything. Derry doesn't know it yet, but plots are hatching beyond the horizon - plots that will draw him into a dangerous journey. This is the first volume in a three-part series, originally sold in a boxed set with three separate novels.