Lester Phillips, otherwise an average mine worker, begins having visions of where precious minerals and Artefacts are located. His premonitions attract the attention of two less-than-friendly wizards. He must escape the clutches of the pair of them in order to save his life, those of his loved ones, and his compatriots-all as a monster stalks the mines as well. And Trystan Sinclair loses his parents in a snowstorm at the age of eighteen. Now, years later, another monster of a blizzard strikes, and his husband goes missing. Trystan is determined to find his beloved, and get to the root of the ungodly storm that threatens the Hinterlands. And Mather Masters is supposed to get a fae power on his sixteenth birthday, but he unexpectedly transfigures into a faerie instead. Hooves, horns and a tail, he doesn't think he's the prettiest picture. In fact, he thinks he looks like a monster. But when Mather's power gets stolen and used for ill purpose, it's up to him to regain it, horns and all. And Francois de la Fontaine's brother was drowned years prior by a monster, and an innocent woman hanged for the crime. But now a new monster aims to strike again, and Francois and his companions must disarm and get to the bottom of the threat, before another innocent life is lost.