For a thousand years, the world of Elarion has been protected by seven magical kingdoms connected by an ancient force called The Starfire.Everyone believes the Starfire was created by the gods.They are wrong.It was created by humanity's first king, who sacrificed his own soul to imprison something beneath the world known as The Hollow King.Now the prison is weakening.Strangely, stars have begun disappearing from the night sky.And seventeen-year-old Kael Ardyn, an ordinary village boy who has never been able to use magic, discovers that he carries something impossible inside him:the final fragment of the dead king's soul.Kael doesn't want to become a hero.Unfortunately, the world has already chosen him.