The oracles have spoken: Elizabeth, King Richard's daughter, is to be Queen of Englene. Never have such signs attended the coming of age of a witchdame princess. And never have the dark forces mustered against an Earthly being as they do now... For Elizabeth is of woodwitch blood as well, and before the final battle, she will enter the ancient flames of the banished mysteries of the Heartwood, into the secret wisdom of the Goddess herself...