Solomon Rott is a Druid. Ten years of study have made him powerful and he has undertaken the protection of the Princess of Heltika as she journeys to her betrothed across the Shallow Sea. The path Solomon walks is long, twisting, and dangerous and the truth of his families heritage will gain him powerful allies and dangerous enemies. Conspiracy in a strange land so familiar and yet vastly different to his own threatens his charge and his country. Can he keep the Dove from being caged or will he lose himself in the strange folk his blood calls out to?