"With a little flavor of Roger Zelazny's Amber books, and a taste of Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain, Card has delivered a science fantasy series that manages to anchor itself both in the quotidian and the marvelous, at once darkly ancient and brightly modern."
- Locus magazine

FOR DANNY NORTH, being the most powerfu mage on Earth or Westil doesn't make high school any easier.  His impulsive miracles only make it harder to hide from the Families who want to either control him or kill him.  He knows that they will use his friends against him.

Danny is beginning to suspect he made a terrible mistake when he wove his Great Gate using the captured power of long-dead gatemages.  He hopes it won't be a fatal mistake.

"Card is a formidable storyteller with many strengths, particularly that of making the reader like and identify with his protagonists."
- The Miami Herald