You would think that a real Creator would be honored and revered; not hunted as an outlaw or duped into thinking they were were just story writers. Popular author Kala discovers that it's not easy being a Creator, trying to save her created world from her own king, deceit, magic, and also trying to manage her heart and the heart of Glade, messenger from a desperate land who literally worships the ground she walks on. Riss, another Creator as anxious to come out of hiding as he is to have his teeth pulled, joins them as they leave the Land of the Creation and try to fix up the corruption of a more cunning mind than theirs.