Tassi has been cleared of attempting to assassinate ‎the Queen, and now her sixteenth birthday is fast ‎approaching. For a follower of Atrios, that means ‎Transition, when one becomes an adult. Tassi wants to ‎go home to Falodirian for that, so she, Niari, Carlitha ‎and all their friends, including the King and Queen, ‎prepare to set out on the journey, accompanying ‎Keladryn and his party as they head home. ‎But, the New Elithimites may not be finished with ‎them yet.‎Meanwhile Warin, goddess of prophecy and destiny, ‎with the rather dubious help of her Uncle Atrios and the ‎rather more useful aid of her mother, Cazovania, is ‎working on getting Niari and Keladryn together. That ‎mating is an essential part of the Plan of the gods, and ‎Niari and Keladryn have been in love for years, so it ‎should be a simple task. But several years ago, the evil ‎goddess Elithim tried to cheat by changing a prophecy, ‎and that had repercussions that no one, not even Warin ‎herself, was prepared for. One of those was that ‎Keladryn became Atrios' high priest. That's a major ‎problem because the priests of Atrios have always been ‎celibate. Atrios has been persuaded to change that law. ‎The problem is convincing Keladryn that something he ‎always believed was wrong is now not only right, but ‎necessary. The three-week journey to Falodirian seems ‎the perfect opportunity to convince him that he can't live ‎without Niari. ‎But, with Atrios obstructing Warin at every turn, ‎that's going to be a lot more work than it ought to be. ‎