The Villain is the Hero on the Other Side of the Gates... He was sentenced to die two days before his twelfth birthday. His mother was murdered. His father executed for treason. And he knows if he goes home again, they will kill him... Prince Sumter and Prince Rasdeter: Born cousins, raised like brothers and separated by tragedy. One would become High King of the Western Hemisphere, the other sentenced to death by the very society that once worshipped him. Now a desperate, lonely boy, Rasdeter roams the Nine Kingdoms, unaware that a powerful man is looking for him, eager to use his birthright as the weapon to plunge the entire Earth into war. "The World is Waiting to Consume You..."