Lugaar comes to the capital of Forcette seeking vengeance, but an ill-timed fight leaves him in the royal dungeons. Imprisoned and forced to fight in the coliseum. Any hope of finding the man who killed his father seems lost. While Lugaar battles King Nolan's gladiator, an explosion rips through the coliseum. In the ensuing chaos, the young man escapes into the city streets. The explosion itself could only come from one source: a rogue Caster. Casters, masters of fire, are considered little more than tools by the human population. Now one has attacked the coliseum, a symbol of King Nolan's power. Nolan knows he cannot let this challenge to his authority go unanswered, but hasn't forgotten the impetuous young man who fought toe-to-toe with the gladiator. The hunt is on for Lugaar, even as he comes ever closer to the man who slaughtered his father. The first volume in Dominic De Marco's Casters series, introduces readers to a society where courtly etiquette exists alongside brutal reality and where a young man begins to realize his destiny is not what it seems.