Held together for millennia by the ancient Gael Gates, The Federation is on the verge of collapse. After three people suddenly disappear into the mysterious portals, Culann Penrose is called in to investigate.
Discovering that the ancient system binding the gates is crumbling, he orders they be shut down. The Druids, still seething at his denunciation of Magic twenty years ago, vehemently oppose Penrose’s inquiry. But then Culann discovers that the weakening technology has inflamed a new Elemental–one which is out to destroy him.
Can Culann unravel the enigmatic mystery of the Gates in time for Science to save him … or will his Magic save the Science of the Gael Gates?