Shadow Maze by Jonathan Wylie. On what should have been a day of celebration, the day marking their transition from boys to men. Varo and Brostek's lives were changed for ever. Their village was destroyed by the Knifemen of Bari, leaving them homeless, orphaned and alone.

Three strangers are pulled into a parallel world, where they encounter menacing obstacles as they try to prevent the impending destruction of Earth as predicted by Nostradamus.

Even as a young girl, Jill was a favorite of the magical, mysterious Wildfolk, who appeared to her from their invisible realm. Little did she know her extraordinary friends represented but a glimpse of a forgotten past and a fateful future. Four hundred years-and many lifetimes-ago, one selfish young lord caused the death of two innocent lovers. Then and there he vowed never to rest until he'd rightened that wrong-and laid the foundation for the lives of Jill and all those whom...

Fortune has turned his attention to freeing those dragons frozen in time at Aether's Cross during the battle with the Charmed. However, it is a period of chaos and the land folds itself and obliterates all sign of Aether's Cross.