In the country of Garatin, the people and the sixty-year-old invaders, the Tarvens, live together side by side, but not in peace. Rebellion is thick in the air, and with Eternity mysteriously missing, who can bring peace and save the innocent from the looming war? Full of life and hope, seventeen-year-old Imagine believes that he and his father are the ones who can finish what Eternity started. But a single life is fragile in a world full of hate: will Imagine be able to pick up where his father left off? or will bitterness and revenge turn his heart to a heavy lump of lead?Five years since she and her parents had to flee for their lives, Promise, the daughter of Courage and Loyal, is all grown up now. Her father, a fugitive, seems determined to turn her life upside down when he decides to return to Garatin. How can three Tarvens live as commoners in a world where hate is strong and forgiveness rare? All Promise wants is to become a true lady of Tarva - nothing else matters to her, but when she meets Imagine, her beliefs are challenged, and she begins to wonder if Eternity had something more planned for her.