In the world of Story, something is wrong. It is breaking down the barriers, causing every telling to be untold.
Something is ripping the walls to pieces...
Tobias has gone to the Academy, determined to unlock the secrets at the edge of the known world...but what he discovers is so much more...
Valiben is a prince with a missing kingdom, and a hunch that something is going terribly wrong with the very fabric of reality...
Frayn is a warrior. The blood of giants is in her veins, and she has fought many terrible foes - but the thing that is growing in the darkness is unlike any enemy she has ever faced...
As the threads start to fray, as the barriers between stories fracture and bend, can this unlikely alliance stop the Universe unspooling before it is too late?
Their quest will take them from the first story ever told to the realms beyond death, and into the dark heart of a secret that is tearing the Universe to pieces.
Something is hungry in the darkness. But where does it come from? And can it be stopped?