Brenden Vetch has spent most of his life learning to listen to the plants and growing things in the mountains of his home. Then he learned loss: loss of his father and his mother to death, many villagers to a fever, his brother to roaming to forget his losses, and his girlfriend to inattention. But Od showed up one day and invited Brenden to come and care for the gardens in her School of Magic. He finds the door to the school under the sign of the shoe in the capitol city of Numis, Kelior. (There are clear and interesting parallels to our recent adventures with WOMD, which could have been named weapons of magical destruction - Ern)

(Source: Ace Hardcover)