'Tom could see the truth, and it set him apart, because he wasn't fooled by the illusions that others believed in. That wasn't what made him a hero, but it was what made him the one person the Empire needed to save it. His courage and his talent combined to set him on a perilous path to the Forest Palliner, to get there before the Whorl Sorcerers could steal its blood and warp it to their own ends. He would find love and death, and learn that heroism has its cost, and that no war, even one for all the right reasons, is without victims.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
