From publisher blurb: In Oakendale, in half-wild eastern Aradorn, folks muster for a market-gathering and tournament in honor of the spring equinox. But all is not what it may seem, for there are those who search in secret for worthy adventurers up to the task of a escorting a young girl on a potentially far journey into the Winter Kingdom. But things may not be what they seem, and dark and unseen forces lurk somewhere just beyond the moonlit shadows of the Bloodthorn Forest.