(Paperback)

Shale Flint has skills needed in a world in which water is worth more than gold, yet he can't control his own destiny. Circumstances force him to continue helping the devious rainlord, Taquar Sardonyx, to create rain, even though Taquar is using his control of water to further his own lust for power.

(Paperback)

Shale is proclaimed Cloudmaster, but he is still under threat. Watergiver priests plot his downfall, his wife cannot be trusted and his own brother wants him dead. The one person he trusts -- and needs in order to bring the rain - is forced to leave the land...

(Paperback)

The Cloudmaster and his stormlords keep the land alive with their power over water and rain. However, the current Cloudmaster is dying and has no heir. An expedition for a potential stormlord locates a village lad called Shale, who finds himself caught between warring factions - because whoever commands a stormlord, commands the water of a nation.