Spring has come to the Gloomweald. But death is ever in season. It rides a storm of iron from the south.

 

The Korrites, the dominant power of the sun-blessed lands, have turned their eye to the iron-rich Gloomweald. The heathen Aeyrn who inhabit it are all that stands in their way, no obstacle to the Korrite’s overwhelming military might. Or so they thought. For they carry the seed of their destruction among their ranks.

 

Born a slave of an Aeyrn mother and a Korrite father, Kirrin Sorn is a child of two worlds but welcome among neither. Her past crimes have landed her on the front lines of the invasion. Endless battle consumes her existence. Surviving to the end of her sentence is her only hope.

 

That is, until her return to the forest of her mother’s birth awakens a power lying dormant within her. But that power will test her loyalties like never before and present a terrible choice: One people to save, the other to destroy. Which will she choose?

 

In the Wanderer’s Grove, Saerig is awakened by a disturbance in the Wellspring. The moment he has been waiting for has come. Ailish’s soul has been reborn. He must abandon his vigil and return to the world to find her.

 

Caught between invading Korrites and hostile Brogh who’ve rejected her rule, Wren struggles to lead the remnants of her broken clan to safety. She cannot face either force alone. Yet, the clans of the Unmarked are the only ones to whom she can turn.

 

Unlikely alliances must be forged, old hatreds abandoned if the Aeyrn are to survive.