The daughter of rich but neglectful parents, Terisa Morgan
lives alone in a New York City apartment, a young woman who
has grown to doubt her own existence. Surrounded by the
flat reassurance of mirrors, she leads an unfulfilled life—
until the night a strange man named Geraden comes crashing
through one of her mirrors, on a quest to find a champion
to save his kingdom of Mordant from a pervasive evil that
threatens the land. Terisa is no champion. She wields
neither magic nor power. And yet, much to her own surprise,
when Geraden begs her to come back with him, she agrees.
Now, in a culture where women are little more than the
playthings of powerful men, in a castle honeycombed with
secret passages and clever traps, in a kingdom threatened
from without and within by enemies able to appear and
vanish out of thin air, Terisa must become more than the
pale reflection of a person. For the way back to Earth is
closed to her. And the enemies of Mordant will stop at
nothing to see her dead.