The time when the wolfkings ruled Ireland was over.
And so it seemed for the banished, bastard wolf-prince, Nuadu Airgetlam. He certainly did not want to reclaim the High Throne from the tyrannical Giants of Gruagach, or to win back Tara.
Into this menaced and repressed land, come two humans, Floy and Fenella, thrown from their own world by massive cosmic schism, and tumbled into the timeless lair of Fael-Inis, the rebel angel. And Fael-Inis has his own reasons for leading these humans into the depths of the Wolfwood and the exiled Forest Court--not least that his daughter, Flame, brought up in the decadence of her mother Reflection's sorcerous Fire Court, is about to be betrothed to the brutal Gruagach leader, Inchbad.
Floy and Fenella, Nuadu and Flame, must find a way to free Tara from the giants and the evil Robemaker, who threatens all with his necromancy, and to save ancient Ireland from its indomitable foes...
This alliance, however, may prove too powerful for even this task.
Ireland awaits: will they be its saviour, or its killing blow?