During a sky war, Ara is seized aboard an enemy warship for an act her harshly regimented country calls treason: she saved an enemy soldier’s life.
Everyone she knows believes the sky does not give people back, and the ship’s eccentric captain means to test that fate by forcing her through Integration, a conversion meant to bind prisoners to Hevalla.
Hevalla wants more than her obedience; it wants whatever blood magic she and the other Rhavnans might possess turned toward the fighting.
A former friend she thought dead now serves as a strict officer determined to protect her, while the unnerving prisoner who came up beside her could make her powerful and may be a spy—or simply dangerous.
Ara means to stay loyal, yet the pull of two countries and two deeply flawed men threatens to cost her more than defiance.
