Half-dragon, half-human, and unsure where she belongs, fourteen-year-old Becka is told by the Good Magician that a great destiny awaits her — one bound up with a man who can travel back in time and erase other people's happiness rather than face his own. Sent to assist him against her better judgment, Becka has to find a way to reach someone who's traded away his conscience. The twenty-fourth Xanth novel pairs a coming-of-age story with a genuinely unsettling villain.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources