The Wind Riders are defeated. With only one ship and a handful of survivors remaining after a vicious surprise attack from Tyr, the Wind Riders flee the Lore Mountains, looking to rebuild, and more importantly, to survive. Intent on keeping their honor, they head west to the Senin Valley, to help Kolo and his people prepare for battle against an army of White Horsemen. But it's a fateful stop at the sprawling city of New Assar that threatens to finish what the Tyrans have already started. The Wind Riders arrive in New Assar with a single goal, to find themselves a new home where they can rebuild and resume their fight against Tyr. But political machinations soon threaten to overwhelm them as Galen works with a distracted King and a greedy council. At the same time, internal conflicts over their new direction threaten to pull the Wind Riders apart from the inside. With their world turned upside down, the Wind Riders must let go of the past and become something new, before they're swept away by the coming storm. A storm they never saw coming.