Thais Morvaren passes as a fisherman's daughter in her seaside village, serving summer tourists while secretly forging weapons from starlight, a power that would consign her to the deadly Trials of Ascension.
A priest's ritual exposes her divine heritage, and she is seized and forced into the competition with one aim: to kill Olinthar, King of the Gods, the father whose touch killed her mother.
Godhood is the only way to reach him, and when her twin Thatcher suddenly manifests powers of his own, he is dragged into the trials beside her.
The selection ceremony binds Thais to Xül, an arrogant necromancer prince with blood on his hands and secrets he will not yield, even as stubborn defiance turns into forbidden heat between them.
Each trial survived draws her closer to vengeance, while something ancient and malevolent moves through the divine realm and the cost of ascension keeps climbing.
