Only the good die young, except for Dano Varos. Part of a hidden branch of humanity fated with near immortality, he lives in the shadows. Fleeing the 1400s Normandy of his youth, he makes his way east to Russia, where centuries later he confronts, first by accident and then by design, a menace from his past that threatens the Russian Crown itself. Watch history unfold, with real events and real people, through the eyes of a secret participant who saw it all. The thrilling first book of the Chronicles of the Mages series.