"Blood in the bones, destruction in the stars. The Shades of Spring shall awaken with the Death of Summer, the Tree of Life shall split in two, the Crown of Roses shall fall, and the Heart of the Halvard shall fail."
When a cryptic prophecy is uttered by their Seer before his death, Halvard Chief Leymon knows that he should take it seriously. But what is most important is to find the next Halvard Seer. When his quest takes him to the lands of the wizards, Leymon learns that the next Seer is a child, and a twin.
Twins are scared and no one should separate them. But the Seer's sister has magic and no Halvard would accept her. Yet Leymon has no choice, and he's willing to bend the rules till he sees the child, and her magic heals him. Halvard have no magic, are immune to it, and it is impossible for someone to heal him…unless they share his blood.
Leymon learns that the children are his own, from a past relationship with the Cailern Queen. Who is also here, with her husband, to claim the children. To unravel the prophecy, Leymon has to travel to the sacred grove called Summer with the Cailern Queen and her husband. Can he come to terms with the wounds of his past to deal with the growing threat that stalks them?
Shades of Spring is an epic fantasy novel and the first in the Shades of Spring series. If you like world ending stakes, magic, mysterious prophecies, hidden identities, flawed characters and emotional conflicts, you will enjoy this book.