This is book #2 of The Tower and The Hive series, and focuses on the most talented of the children of The Rowan, a girl named Damia. But the novel is mostly told from the view-point of an older man, Afra Lyon, who has helped to raise the children of The Rowan and Jeff Raven. Damia is very powerful, but not so well controlled, and is sent to Deneb to live with her grandmother. Afra comes to realize he is in love with Damia, but given the age difference that seems like a problem. In the end, however, the two come together.

I listened to the audio book of this novel.