Our roots extend deeper than the soil upon which we tread. A peculiar talisman imparts this lesson to a fatherless boy and watches him grow.
The agents of change that color a life and steer a destiny are governed by things greater than that which can be touched, seen or smelt, but though their esoteric orchestrators may reside in far-off places, the agents themselves are tied intrinsically to the natural world.
The life and destiny of a young man, Nile Sendeross, is suddenly and irretrievably altered when he willingly takes possession of a singular charm.
Through a series of unusual and unsettling experiences that both frighten and entice, he learns that while some influences can be classified as internal, and some as external, there are those which can be both at the same time.
Fatherless since he was a small child, Nile’s world becomes larger and stranger than he ever thought possible when a wizard named Phaegnon finds him unconscious in a field, a stone’s throw from the site of a bloodbath of the boy’s own making.
Against the backdrop of a world on the verge of plunging into genocidal warfare, a trepidacious Nile takes his first steps towards understanding the power of the talisman he possesses, the depth and antiquity of its roots, and what it means to be The Joiner.