ENTER A WORLD POWERED BY LEY LINES! Wielder Kara Tremain and former Dog Allan Garrett have seized control of the new Nexus created at the distant temple known as the Needle, the stronghold of the White Cloaks. Kara intends to use the Needle's Nexus to heal the major distortions that threaten to shake their entire world apart. But the Needle is no safe haven.Father Dalton's followers have begun to rebel, starting riots and creating unrest. The tensions escalate beyond control when Father Dalton declares he's had a vision in which the Needle is attacked from the north by dogs and from the south by snakes; a vision that ends with the quickening of the distortions called the Three Sisters to the north...and the annihilation of reality itself!