Good or evil ... your wish is his command.

In a land of dust and deserted relics; in the jungles and mountains of the sophisticated ancient empires; hidden in the catacombs beneath wealthy cities, powerful Beings are imprisoned against their will ... and for the good of humanity. Punished and condemned to serve humans until eternity, their otherwordly power can be commanded by any human who discovers it — compelled to obey at any cost.

Unleashed from its prison by a human's touch, one of these Beings begins a journey that will cross time and boundaries, changing the destiny of three separate human lives; seeking for itself along the way the only hope left for a condemned Being of power — to somehow be free.

Hessa, condemned to die under false accusations, finds rescue from that power. Becoming a powerful sorceress to save her people, she will survive so long as she keeps the secret which makes her a witch of legend — and if she can escape the powerful raj bent on acquiring it.

Reckless and roaming the alleys of a city, Ajala ends up in the clutches of a bandit tribe as a child, used as a ploy to lure unsuspecting caravans to their doom. Fate — and an encounter with the Being's unbelievable magic — will bring him within reach of a sultan's throne, and bring his soul to a point of jeopardy it has never before known, even at the point of a knife.

Pim, an orphan boy and slave granted freedom and trade by his former master, becomes guide and ferryman for a scholar and talisman hunter, whose unwitting brush with dark powers brings to light a lost city's forgotten appeal for help — and Pim's burning desire to seek it out sets the course for an adventure with the talisman hunter, a supernatural stowaway, and a worldweary scribe bent on keeping the young sailor from coming to harm.

Discover their fates as the secret which binds them together unravels, in the discovery of what makes a human — or a spirit — truly free.