Present Tense. In the midst of the horror of the first World War, a stranger falls from nowhere into the mud and death of the Flanders battlefield bruised, babbling, and stark naked with a remarkable story to tell. Wrongly accused murderer Edward Exeter has reappeared on this Earth bearing scars and secrets. From somewhere he calls next door--a place old godly intrigues and an ancient prophecy that he wants no part of. But powerful forces on both sides of a mystical border have other plans...

Auskiere, wizard of wind and water, bound the Mharg-demons with the aid of Ivan, master of fire and earth. But at the moment of his greatest peril Ivan is betrayed and he swears a terrible oath against his betrayer - an oath so powerful that it begins a relentless "cycle of fire".

The Ruby Knight. Ehlana, queen of Elenia, clings to life by a thread preserved within a diamond-like block of crystal conjured by a sorceress with the aid of a dozen Pandion knights. For a year, their lives will save hers. However there is a lost jewel which will save her life, if it can be found.