Taryn MacTavish found the egg in a pile of wet leaves on a camping trip when she was only nine years old. A nine-year old believes in a lot of things--killer snipes, flying dragons, magical powers and fantastic worlds--but the woman that Taryn has become is firmly rooted in the real world...until the egg she has safely kept all these years hatches into a baby griffin. Now she must make a choice: Abandon Aisling and lead a normal life, or follow a mysterious singing gypsy out of Earth and i...

Since coming to the world of Arcadia to raise her baby griffin, Taryn MacTavish has had to overcome a lot of difficulties, but she's finally beginning to feel welcome. She's settled into her small camp in the Valley of Hoof and Horn, she's earned the trust (and perhaps more) of the Cerosan lord who rules it, she's been adopted by the mystical Morathi of kraal-Rucombe, and best of all, she's made friends with the lonely magus who lives by the lake nearby…but her new friend is not what he se...

The wizard is dead and there is peace in the Valley, but peace doesn't necessarily mean that life gets easier. As summer drags on, Taryn MacTavish must find a way to cope with the inevitable changes peace has brought: Her baby griffin is growing up, the Dragon-born Pathfinders have opened the Roads between Arcadia and Earth, the long-exiled Cerosan are returning to their homeland, and Antilles, lord of the Valley of Hoof and Horn, has defied all tradition and asked Taryn to marry him, but ...