Essenheim is unrecognizable when Imani returns, its crown seized and its magic so fractured it feels alive in the air.
Tanyl, once her closest friend, now rules as savior and tyrant, purging dissent, binding witches to his cause, and gathering wielders to forge a weapon capable of rewriting the realm’s balance.
Fabric events tear open the sky, riots spread, and mercenaries and covens hunt the missing heir while Kiran’s warning of the allies behind Tanyl’s throne stays sharp in her mind.
Wanted posters carry her face across the kingdoms, and a deadly pact between Essenheim and Niflheim strips away her last hiding place.
To reclaim the throne and preserve what remains of magic, she must enter the Draswood Forest and stand before Vathis, High Sentinel of the Norn elves.
In that seat of power, her fate will be settled, and survival may demand she become something she never meant to be.
