Lark Silvertree finally has people worth fighting for. The timing could be worse, but not by much.
War came to Autumncrown, and when the smoke cleared, Rion was gone. Taken by the Ashen Enclave. Lark will do whatever it takes to get him back. But rescue is only the beginning.
The man she saved isn’t the scholar who looked at her like she was a puzzle worth solving. He’s a shadow of who he was, and all the daggers in the world can’t fix that.
Safe in Springhope, for now, they have time. Time for Rion to heal. Time to convince an isolationist enclave that neutrality won’t save them from what’s coming.
Saving him was the easy part. Loving him while he learns to find himself again? That’s a battle she never trained for.
