The Aventine Empire. seat of civilization, is crumbling under the attacks of powerful savages aided by a. renegade telepath. Master telepath Lenardo feels responsible—the renegade is a former pupil—and vows to track him down into the strange lands of the Savage Empire. There, mankind has evolved with different powers: able to perform surgery without a knife. able to move objects through the air without touching them. These are the abilities Lenardo considers "magic:' while the savages hate and fear the prying telepaths who can see into their most private thoughts. And it is there that Lenardo is captured by Aradia. beautiful witch-queen of the White Wolf.. The sorceress has a plan of her own—one that will involve the reluctant Lenardo in a more fearsome. battle than he ever imagined!

When Torio, a Reader, breaks his word and offers his telepathic powers to the Adepts in the Savage Lands, Melissa, a Healer and Reader, must use all of her powers to save the Aventine Empire

In the Aventine Empire, gladiator games still slake the multitudes' undying thirst for blood. Magister Astra hated the games - with her telepathic powers, she felt the warriors' agonies as her own. But the Master had once again sent her there to tend the wounded: it was a punishment - but for what? Even her strongest Reading couldn't tell her. Not until an unexpected death and an exotic, mind-bending drug brought her into the pat of the ex-slave warrior Zanos did Astra begin to understand the web of deceit, greed, and vengeance that would send them both in a desperate Flight To The Savage Empire.

THE STRANGERS FROM AFRICA ARRIVED ON THE SHORES OF THE SAVAGE EMPIRE SEEKING THE AID IN A BATTLE TO THE DEATH AGAINST Z'NELIA THE WITCH-QUEEN. THE POWERFUL ADEPT WAS FORCED TO REFUSE THEM, FOR HIS TRUE DUITY WAS TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE OF HIS OWN KINGOM FROM HARM. BUT WHEN THE AFRICANS KIDNAPPED HIS BROTHER BY MARRAGE, WULFSTON WAS FORCED TO CROSS THE SEAS IN PURSUIT OF HIS TRAIITOROUS GUESTS. AND WHAT BEGAN AS A SIMPLE RESCUE MISSION BECAME A DEADLY CONTEST OF WILLS.

As always Power ruled the Savage Empire. Not the crude force of sword and staff but the infinitely subtle strains of an Adept's musings. Aradia, the most powerful Adept of the Empire, is a woman thrust into greatness in order to rule a land beset by strife and ancient evil. But suddenly her strength falters. An unseen force seems to strike against her to sap Aradia's Power. Terrified she wonders about the unborn child growing inside her. Could its power be growing as well, overwhelming her own?