To what lengths would you go to keep a promise? Tinna made a promise, it's not a world-changing promise--she just wanted to follow through with something, to insure that a little boy, whose whole life has been rife with disappointment, would for once learn that adults are trustworthy. Tinna is an outcast from her own country. She's an outcast pretty much everywhere, but finally, she's found a place for herself, and she's finally considering an end to her wandering. A good man is in the offering, the unadulterated love of a broken child and a community that is willing to include her as one of their own... However, fate has something else in mind for Tinna. Carried away from the prospect of a simple life of comfort, and even love, Tinna is thrown into the middle a one-sided war where dragons are attacking humankind. Suddenly the resolution becomes her responsibility alone. What must Tinna do to find her way back to the life she has traveled so hard to find? And what must she endure to fulfill that one, simple promise to a hurt little boy?