"I am yours, and you are mine...Whatever comes now, we are one." Her heroes are gone, taken together in a flash by a vengeful God leaving Jondre to find her way alone. Befriended by a woman who knows more than she's telling, she makes a choice to try to help what's left of her family and finds herself at the seat of power but also the center of the expanding abyss. Her world is nothing that it seemed. A Eupion raid near the boundary delivers a surprise to High House, a new tragedy to deal with and the catalyst for an even more difficult future to come. Just when she thinks there cannot be more, she sees the most fearsome immortal she's ever encountered, and as match-mates are revealed, this one is hers. Nothing is simple anymore.