"The village behind the great gates is a place filled with fear as outside these gates reside the monsters and giants of the stories he heard of since he was a boy. When Vren, confiding in his family about his ability to do things with his mind, is outcast from his family and village as one of the shadowed, people with extraordinary powers, he expects to die. Lost and confused about who or what he is, Vren finds is something altogether different: a community of shadowed people"--