Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate--to be sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a rash promise her father made--through a series of quests that might make her immortal. Teenaged Kezi is to be sacrificed to the Hyte god because of a rash oath made by her father, but young Olus, Akkan god of the winds, falls in love with her, and together, they try to change her fate through a series of quests.