The Sethian Shield is weakening-one of the Banished Ones has already escaped. Was it a flaw in the Shield's design or something more sinister? And more importantly, will any more of them escape?

Marie de Haan - wife, mother of three, piano teacher, songwriter, and writer - was leading an impossibly busy life. All of that changed when she was blindsided by a diagnosis of Stage III locally advanced breast cancer.