<P>There will be a battle and you will need to protect your heart.<P>Kjell of Jeru had always known who he was. He'd never envied his brother or wanted to be king. He was the bastard son of the late King Zoltev and a servant girl and the ignominy of his birth had never bothered him.<P>But there is more to a man than his parentage. More to a man than his blade his size or his skills and all that Kjell once knew has shifted and changed. He is no longer simply Kjell of Jeru a warrior defending the crown. Now he is a healer one of the Gifted and a man completely at odds with his power.<P>Called upon to rid the country of the last vestiges of the Volgar Kjell stumbles upon a woman who has troubling glimpses of the future and no memory of the past. <P>Armed with his unwanted gift and haunted by regret Kjell becomes a reluctant savior beset by old enemies and new expectations. With the woman by his side Kjell embarks upon a journey where the greatest test may be finding the man she believes him to be.<P>An Author's Republic audio production.