"I am a singer. And I am alone. His parents came from two very different worlds. And Singer was an outcast. a misfit who belonged to neither world... a master of solitude.". The City stood alone beyond the forest. Through the Self-Gate, annihilator of the unwary, none could gain entry alive, and none came out.

While studying the telepathic powers of the nature-worshipping Coven people, medical advisor Corian discovers a terrifying, destructive psychic force that could obliterate the Coven way of life