Essarai

Lily of Camar grew up afraid to use her extraordinary powers of healing. Told by her father to let no one know of her abilities she keeps them hidden until the Roh Vec Empire conquers her small island. Forced into slavery with the rest of her people, she escapes her bonds with the help of her Camarian lover. Together they follow the visions of a mysterious seer and travel to the Northlands, a wild, untamed land where even the trees of the forest are reputed to have power. Here, they will seek to find the truth of her heritage.
Tevarian was taken from his parents as a child and taught to serve the Emperor with his powers of mind control. Killing is second nature to him until he is lost in the forests of the north and his powers are taken. Now, living among his enemies, he learns that the truths he was taught by the Empire were a lie and that his future is not what he once thought.
Together with a renegade general, runaway slaves and the mysterious inhabitants of the Northlands, both must now choose to either join together to end the oppressive Empire or watch as it destroys all those who rebel against it.