'You will never have it,'she whispered. 'Not in this life.' In the frozen mountains of Iceland, amid the leaping Northern lights, Vasuki ? the giver of life, Protector and Friend ? leaves a vital secret with a young girl. Over a thousand years later, in the bustling suburb of Gurgaon, in India, six young people with startling gifts discover the secret. Hurled into a testing crusade against the terrifying adversary, they are called upon to decipher the long?buried past, and save the future of mankind. They have no choice but to follow a destiny enmeshed with the fate of dying planets, ancient warriors and the Universe.