A young man in a dark city is about to discover an entire hidden world consisting of all the creatures and beings once thought to be myth. This is the world of summoners; and Crowe is thrust into the very core of it as he is chosen by the long hidden Shadow Dragon and thus forced to be a guardian of the world. Together they must fight, grow, learn, and love in order to achieve full power to be ready for any challenge and to overcome the past. Unfortunately for them, however, the past sometimes has a hard time letting go... Cover art is: Nami Dragon's Magic Circle by: Nami Dragon, aka Aniva Leung, from DeviantArt.

I thought they were myths. Legends. Stories, just to make our people scared of what lurks in the dark. Guess I was wrong. They're real. Life behind the shadows exists. A rather different world than ours I should say, filled with creatures unknown to the men of today. And now as I lay down on the hard surface out of sight but not of scent I watched as death itself took slow steps to were I was hiding. I knew I was going to die one day but, I didn't know that I would live a short life...