In book one, Hera begins her story in the company of her childhood friends, Artemis and Apollo, as they go out to hunt the boar along Atlantis' jungle shores. Hera, young, and too eager for glory, plunges into disaster discovering a mystical ability that changes the direction of her life. She is taken into the myth and mystery of the Emerald Temple, home of powerful priestesses, where she discovers her true lineage and her royal destiny.