The Award Winning Saga Concludes! The Silone clans survived to reach the Dragonspan Mountains bloodied but full of hope, but as wars end in the Tek Kingdoms, old enemies rise. In the north: Eliles struggles to make sense of a murder on Herald's Watch and discovers that she and her people are less alone than they ever imagined. Pikarn navigates the river to reach an island closer to Istinjoln, but finds a Broldun nemesis certain to make him re-earn the name Wolverine. In the South: Warlord Ivin Choerkin eyes the Tek Nations to the north as prayers for peace fade to war, but in the southern forests a new and mysterious foe rises. Meliu and Polus Broldun lead an army south to a pyramid known as Green Mountain to rescue Rinold and his patrol who were captured by a people known only as the yellow-eyes. But Green Mountain is a devil's rise where death awaits. Kinesee finds life as the Warlord Choerkin's bride exhilarating as she strives to earn military aid from the Eight Kingdoms and the Helelindin, but as she proves her worth, the more the Heretics of Rin want her dead. Solineus has discovered that Clan Emudar is alive and well but thousands of horizons from being any help. He sets out to reunite the clans, but along the way will find clues to his past and an Impossible Son.